Alfred Jay Bollet, MD has had a long and distinguished medical career, with a focus in internal medicine and rheumatology. He has served on the faculty of several medical schools, was chairman of the departments of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and the State University of New York in Brooklyn, and has been Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine for many years.
"Introduction: Unintentional Causes of Epidemic Diseases: The Effect of
Human History on Disease. Infectious Diseases.Bubonic Plague; The Little
Flies that Brought Death: Part 1: Malaria; The Little Flies that Brought
Death: Part 2: Yellow Fever; The Great Pox: Syphilis; The Smallpox; Safe
Water And Unsafe Water: Epidemic Cholera; President Wilson and the
Blitzkatarrh: The story of the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919; The
Rise and Fall of Epidemic Poliomyelitis: Why Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Get Infantile Paralysis As An Adult?. Non-Infectious Diseases. Beriberi: An
Epidemic That Affected Rice-Eaters; The Three M's Produce The Four D's: The
Epidemics of Pellagra; The Purpura Nautica: Epidemic Scurvy; Dying for a
Cigar? How about a Cigarette? Part I: Smoking and Epidemic Cancer: A Story
of Two Presidents and a Prince ; Dying for a cigar? How about a cigarette?
Part II: The Death of President Harding: Poisoning or the Start of an
Epidemic?; Rickets; Gout. Intentionally Induced Diseases: Bioterrorism. The
most feared induced diseases: anthrax and botulism; Conclusion: The Rise
and Fall and Rise of Epidemic Disease, Intentional and Unintentional."
