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314

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Cover of: The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Jan 30, 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Cover of: Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs
2006, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Cover of: The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs
The great stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century struggle against filth and germs
2006, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of Contents

"Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880
The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public
Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory
Putting germ theory into practice
Toward a cleaner and healthier republic
Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond
The legacy of the twentieth century.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.

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306.4/61
Library of Congress
RA418.3.E85 B37 2006

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xi, 314 p. :
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314

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OL22730931M
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greatstinkparisn00barn
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0801883490
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695716
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302067

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