Lemuel Shattuck

Books

American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease
by Stephen H. Gehlbach

Contents: Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever — Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 — Noddle’s Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination — Scourge of the Middle West : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake — Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck’s report — Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau — The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis — A cancer grows : Edward R. Murrow and the cigarette — Searching America’s heart : the Framingham study –Continuing story : present plagues.

Journal Articles

Custard, B. (2016). Lead from where you are. Journal Of Environmental Health, (9), 6.