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    Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease
    Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
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    Medical Fiascoes Series

    Written by Gail Jarrow

    Narrated by Donald Corren and Jonathan Todd Ross

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    About this series

    Acclaimed nonfiction writer and Sibert Honor winner Gail Jarrow begins her new series on medical fiascoes with an in-depth look at the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. The Civil War took the lives of more than 600,000 men. Bullet wounds
    were deadly, but twice as many soldiers died from disease—pneumonia, diarrhea, typhoid fever, measles, and smallpox. Tens of thousands who survived the war were permanently disabled or disfigured. Yet out of this tragedy came medical
    progress. Doctors and nurses gained valuable experience treating the injured and sick. Military and medical officials recognized that proper sanitation in camps and hospitals could save lives. Improvements to the ambulance service and hospital
    system lowered the fatality rate. An expert at blending science and history, Jarrow relies heavily on primary documents—first-person accounts and medical case studies—to reveal the true stories behind the battle against wounds and disease.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 1, 1999
    Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease
    Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

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      Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
      Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

      Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

      Gail Jarrow
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      James Garfield has only been the United States president for a few days when a stranger begins stalking him. Who is this man? And what does he want from the president? For weeks, the threat to Garfield grows, undetected, until a sudden violent encounter catches Washington by surprise. In this gripping thriller, Sibert Honor-winner Gail Jarrow continues her Medical Fiascoes series by exploring events from the summer of 1881. Anxious Americans intently follow news reports in the aftermath of the stranger’s shocking attack on Garfield. Can the president’s doctors save him? Have their mistakes put him in new danger? Jarrow uncovers these answers and more in the haunting true story about a fiasco that changed the course of political and medical history.

      James Garfield has only been the United States president for a few days when a stranger begins stalking him. Who is this man? And what does he want from the president? For weeks, the threat to Garfield grows, undetected, until a sudden violent encounter catches Washington by surprise. In this gripping thriller, Sibert Honor-winner Gail Jarrow continues her Medical Fiascoes series by exploring events from the summer of 1881. Anxious Americans intently follow news reports in the aftermath of the stranger’s shocking attack on Garfield. Can the president’s doctors save him? Have their mistakes put him in new danger? Jarrow uncovers these answers and more in the haunting true story about a fiasco that changed the course of political and medical history.

    • Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease
      Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease

      Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease

      Gail Jarrow
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      Acclaimed nonfiction writer and Sibert Honor winner Gail Jarrow begins her new series on medical fiascoes with an in-depth look at the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. The Civil War took the lives of more than 600,000 men. Bullet wounds were deadly, but twice as many soldiers died from disease—pneumonia, diarrhea, typhoid fever, measles, and smallpox. Tens of thousands who survived the war were permanently disabled or disfigured. Yet out of this tragedy came medical progress. Doctors and nurses gained valuable experience treating the injured and sick. Military and medical officials recognized that proper sanitation in camps and hospitals could save lives. Improvements to the ambulance service and hospital system lowered the fatality rate. An expert at blending science and history, Jarrow relies heavily on primary documents—first-person accounts and medical case studies—to reveal the true stories behind the battle against wounds and disease.

      Acclaimed nonfiction writer and Sibert Honor winner Gail Jarrow begins her new series on medical fiascoes with an in-depth look at the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. The Civil War took the lives of more than 600,000 men. Bullet wounds were deadly, but twice as many soldiers died from disease—pneumonia, diarrhea, typhoid fever, measles, and smallpox. Tens of thousands who survived the war were permanently disabled or disfigured. Yet out of this tragedy came medical progress. Doctors and nurses gained valuable experience treating the injured and sick. Military and medical officials recognized that proper sanitation in camps and hospitals could save lives. Improvements to the ambulance service and hospital system lowered the fatality rate. An expert at blending science and history, Jarrow relies heavily on primary documents—first-person accounts and medical case studies—to reveal the true stories behind the battle against wounds and disease.

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