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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Reuters senior reporter Randall ... presents a little-known aspect of California history. In 1899, Chinese immigrants crowded into a corner of San Francisco's Chinatown, were dying of a strange disease. Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun (1860--1919), a brilliant scientist who lacked social skills and had been banished to San Francisco by an envious boss, used his expertise in the new science of bacteriology to identify the illness as bubonic plague. At that...
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