Description:Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. To get started finding Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
216
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
LSU Press
Release
2010
ISBN
0807137375
Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
Description: Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. To get started finding Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.