Bibliograph

How our ancestors died, a guide for family historians, Simon Willis

Type

Label

How our ancestors died, a guide for family historians, Simon Willis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 209) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How our ancestors died

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

825559928

Responsibility statement

Simon Willis

Sub title

a guide for family historians

Summary

What were the principal causes of death in the past? What did our ancestors think about the illnesses and the accidents that might befall them? Wills describes the common causes of death-- disease, alcoholism, childhood infections, accidents-- and reveals how life and death have changed over the centuries, how medical science has advanced so that some once-mortal illnesses are now curable while others are just as deadly now as they were then

Table Of Contents

Investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of disease -- Finding a cause of death -- Accidents and disasters -- Alcohol and alcoholism -- Cancer -- Chest conditions -- Children, babies, and infection -- Cholera -- Diet and starvation -- Dysentery and bowel infections -- Epilepsy and strokes -- Execution and murder -- Heart conditions -- Influenza -- Mental illness and suicide -- Opium addiction -- Plague -- Pregnancy and childbirth -- Scurvy -- Smallpox -- Tropical infections -- Tuberculosis -- Typhus -- Venereal diseases -- War -- Wounds -- Places to visit

Target audience

adult

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