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Fiends, Ghosts and Sprites

出版	Echo Library, 2012-12
主題	History / GeneralLiterary Collections / GeneralBody, Mind & Spirit / MysticismBody, Mind & Spirit / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts)Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN	14068038559781406803853
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nsZllAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋John Netten Radcliffe (1826-84) was an English epidemiologist born in Yorkshire who received his early medical training at the Leeds School of Medicine. Shortly after gaining his diploma he went to the Crimea as a surgeon attached to the headquarters of Omar Pasha, remaining there until the close of the war. He received for his sevices the Order of the Medjidie as well as the Turkish and English medals, with a clasp for Sebastopol. On his return he became medical superintendent of the Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. In 1866 Radcliffe investigated an outbreak of cholera in East London which he traced to the infected supply of the East London Water Co, and when his report was published the following year it gained him a reputation. In 1869 he was appointed to the second of two public health inspectorships then created by the privy council, and on the formation of the local government board in 1871 he was made assistant medical officer. He resigned in 1883 due to poor health and died the following year. Before his official appointment, Radcliffe published three works: The Pestilence in England (1852), Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites (1854), and The Hygiene of theTurkish Army (1858). In his official capacity he prepared a number of reports dealing with epidemics and quarantine. In Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites the author notes that "a belief in the supernatural has existed in all ages and among all nations", and he sets out to offer an account of The Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural, providing the reader with a comprehensive history of the many and varied aspects of the subject.