Tuberculosis

Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Chicago Library

John Crerar Library Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine

Tuberculosis

This guide is meant to be general a starting point to locating books on the history of medicine as it relates toTB in North America, primarily within the University of Chicago Library.Keywords & subject headings to try in the Library Catalog & online databases

history, historical
Tuberculosis, TB, consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, tubercular consumption, pulmonary consumption, consumption of the lungs

Selected Resources at the Library:

Special Collections Research Center | Chicago and Illinois in the Nineteenth Century Chicago and Illinois in the Nineteenth Century: Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections: Edward Franklin Wells. Plumonary Tuberculosis. [Crerar Ms. 102] Edward Franklin Wells. The Amelioration of the Condition of Consumptives and Restriction of the Extension of Tuberculosis. [Crerar Ms. 103]
The white death : a history of tuberculosis / Thomas Dormandy. 2000. Dormandy, Thomas Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC311.D67 2000
Fevered lives : tuberculosis in American culture since 1870 / Katherine Ott. 1996. Ott, Katherine. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC309.A5O88 1996
Disease and class : tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society / Georgina D. Feldberg. c1995. Feldberg, Georgina D., 1956- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.5.F450 1995
Living in the shadow of death : tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in America / Sheila M. Rothman. c1994. Rothman, Sheila M. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.R680 1994 S
Healing tuberculosis in the woods : medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century / David L. Ellison. 1994. Ellison, David L. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.E450 1994
From consumption to tuberculosis : a documentary history / edited by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz.: New York : Garland Pub., 1994. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.F760 1993
Pioneers of medicine and their impact on tuberculosis / Thomas M. Daniel. 2000. Daniel, Thomas M. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310 .D36 2000
The making of a social disease; : tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France / David S. Barnes. c1995. Barnes, David S. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC316.F8B370 1995
The modern epidemic : a history of tuberculosis in Japan / William Johnston. 1995. Johnston, William, 1955- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC317.J26J640 1995
Bargaining for life : a social history of tuberculosis, 1876-1938 / Barbara Bates. c1992. Bates, Barbara, 1928- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC309.P4B380 1992
The retreat of tuberculosis, 1850-1950 / F.B. Smith. c1988. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.5.S650 1988
Prehistoric tuberculosis in the Americas / edited by Jane E. Buikstra. c1981. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.P740
A history of tuberculosis in the Black community : a working bibliography / compiled by Lenwood G. Davis. 1975. Davis, Lenwood G. Location: Regenstein Stacks Call #: Z5942.C73 no.859 1975
Tuberculosis medical research: National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1955 [by] Virginia Cameron and Esmond R. Long. 1959. Cameron, Virginia. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC311.4.C2
Tuberculosis in history, from the 17th century to our own times. 1949. Cummins, Stevenson Lyle, 1873- Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC310.C92
Illinois. Board of Health. Title: The cause and prevention of consumption, a disease also known as "tuberculosis," "pulmonary tuberculosis," "phthisis," "tubercular consumption," "pulmonary consumption" and "consumption of the lungs," Circular issued by the Illinois State Board of Health 1904. Crerar Stacks RC311.I2 Not charged
The National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; historical sketch, 1898-1926. 1926] National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain) Location: Crerar Dewey Coll Call #: 614.06261 S600
Evans, George A. Title: Hand-book of historical and geographical phthisiology; with special reference to the distribution of consumption in the United States, comp. and arranged by George A. Evans. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1888. Location: Crerar Stacks Call #: RC311.E9
Addison, William, 1802-1881. On healthy and diseased structure, and the true principles of treatment for the cure of disease, especially Consumption and Scrofula, founded on microscopical analysis. London, J. Churchill, 1849.Spec Coll, Crerar Rare, 130 Regenstein RM101.A33 1849
Jaccoud, S. (Sigismond), 1830-1913 UniformTitle: Curabilité et traitement de la phthisie pulmonaire English Title: The curability and treatment of pulmonary phthisis / by S. Jaccoud ; translated and edited by Montagu Lubbock. New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Crerar Dewey Coll 616.246 O100
Marten, Benjamin. Title: A new theory of consumptions: [microform] more especially of a phthisis, or consumption of the lungs. ... By Benjamin Marten, M.D. Imprint: London : printed for R. Knaplock; A. Bell; J. Hooke, and C. King, 1720. Description: [4],xii,186,[22]p. ; 8. Series: Eighteenth Century ; reel 2023, no. 4. Microforms, floor 3 Regenstein microfmPN6011.E548 reel 2023, no. 4

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