Download or read book The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913 written by Margaret R. O’Leary MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913: Violent and Not Imagined, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communities to care for the horribly stricken while inoculating the still well to prevent spread of the epidemic.