Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Not Everything That Stinks Kills": Odors and Germs in the Streets of Paris, 1880 -- 2 The Sanitarians' Legacy, or How Health Became Public -- 3 Taxonomies of Transmission: Local Etiologies and the Equivocal Triumph of Germ Theory -- 4 Putting Germ Theory into Practice -- 5 Toward a Cleaner and Healthier Republic -- 6 Odors and "Infection," 1880 and Beyond -- Epilogue: The Legacy of the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.