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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. “Minister, I submit this report…”
The Earliest Public Health Reports
The Reports of District Health Practitioners
The Reports of County Medical Officers
The Reports of the Higher Medical Council
The Reports of Public Health Inspectors
The Reports of the Metropolitan Health and Sanitary Services
The Reports of Doctors from Rural Hospitals
The Reports of Regimental Medical Personnel
“Having reached the twilight of life, I am haunted by memories”
“Doctor, scratch me”
1. “Thick layers of filth cover their skin”: On the Hygiene of Bodies and Clothes
The Peasant, A Being Wretched in His Body…
… And Wretched in His Clothes
The Underground Hovel: The Scourge of the Rural Habitat
Overground Homes: Clay, Dung, and Straw
The “Hygienic Ills” of Rural Dwellings
The Peasant at the Table
Mămăligă … and Again Mămăligă
The Peasant: A Reluctant Vegetarian
Mămăliga, Sloth, Illness and Death
The Good Times of Yesteryear
Our Daily Water
The Peasant and His Bottle
“Alcoholism: From Birth till Death”
The “Hazards of Alcoholism”
Against Drunkenness
The Illness and Its Representations
An Illness of the Poor
A Sarabande of Statistics
“Pellagra: An Illness caused by Rotten Corn”
Against Pellagra
The Beginning of the End
Degeneration, Depopulation, Antisemitism
Racial Degeneration and the Statistics of Conscription
Infant Mortality at the End of the Century
For the Sake of the People’s Health: Laws, Regulations, Norms …
… And the Impossibility of Enforcing Them
Empirics, Charlatans, and Ignorance
The New Order of Carol Davila
The Empirics and Their Remedies
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of Names
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