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 Murrow and the cigarette
Searching America's heart : the Framingham study
A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS
Too little, too much : healthcare related infections
Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.