Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth.
Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for genera.
Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society.
Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought.
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth