A Darkened House : Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada, Bilson, Geoffrey<-

A Darkened House\nby Geoffrey Bilson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Geoffrey Bilson\nTitle: A Darkened House\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Forensic medicine\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1980\nISBN-13: 9780802064028\nISBN-10: 0802064027\nRRP: \u00A324.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFrom its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and widened the division between rich and poor. In a fascinating and disturbing book, Geoffrey Bilson traces the story of the cholera epidemics as they ravaged the Ca.