The medical detectives, Berton Roueché
Type
Label
The medical detectives, Berton Roueché
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The medical detectives
Oclc number
22451327
Responsibility statement
Berton Roueché
Summary
In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease
Table Of Contents
Eleven blue men -- A pig from Jersey -- A game of wild Indians -- The incurable wound -- CH₃CO₂C₆H₄CO₂H (aspirin) -- The Liberace Room -- Impression : essentially normal -- A swim in the Nile -- The orange man -- The dead mosquitoes -- Something a little unusual -- A man named Hoffman -- Three sick babies -- The West Branch study -- The Huckleby hogs -- All I could do was stand in the woods -- As empty as Eve -- Two blue hands -- Antipathies -- Sandy -- A rainy day on the Vineyard -- Live and let live -- The fumigation chamber -- A lean cuisine -- The foulest and nastiest creatures that be