["Captain of all these men of death"] : : [the history of tuberculosis in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland] / / [by Greta Jones].

• Superior document: Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Greta,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2001]
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome series in the history of medicine.; Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (i, 263 pages) :; illustrations.

Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Only in the first decade of the twentieth century did mortality from tuberculosis begin to fall and even then it remained higher in Ireland than in Britain and many other Eu...