Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century
  • Ch. 1. The new face of rheumatism, 1798-1840
  • Ch. 2. Acute rheumatism and hospitals, 1840-1880
  • Ch. 3. Walter Butler Cheadle and the "typical case," 1880-1890
  • pt. II. The clinical and scientific challenges of an evolving disease
  • Ch. 4. Rheumatic fever as sepsis, 1890-1920
  • Ch. 5. Clinical Management, 1890-1925
  • Ch. 6. Allergy, heredity, environment, and the emergence of the streptococcus, 1925-1945
  • pt. III. The disappearance of rheumatic fever in the twentieth century.
  • Ch. 7. From acute to chronic, 1925-1945
  • Ch. 8. At the bedside, 1925-1945
  • Ch. 9. Penicillin, cortisone, and heart surgery, 1945-1965
  • Ch. 10. The waning of rheumatic fever : molecular biology, epidemiology, and history, 1945-1965.