The Black Angels: the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis

A note to readers

Remembrance of things past

Part I : 1929-1935. The call for nurses ; The preacher's daughter ; The wager ; Harlem ; Contagion on the island ; The most magnificent institution ; The scourge ; Elke ; Vows ; The thoracoplasty ; The movement ; The breakthrough ; The riot

Part II : 1936-1939. Ward 64 ; A president's son ; What they carried ; The elixer ; "Reserved for whites" ; The fight ; The offer ; Homecoming

Part III : 1940-1944. Dr. Edward Robitzek ; Arrivals ; The prisoner ; "Al hit paydirt!" ; "Ich Hoffe Du Wirst Krank"

Part IV : 1944-1949. The nature of things ; "In the business of dying" ; Promise ; 188 Wheeler Avenue ; Firsts ; Dark places ; A brighter future ; The second call ; "Magic germ killer" ; New beginning ; "If one had some streptomycin"

Part V : 1949-1952. Rumors ; Mamie ; The carnation ; On the open ward ; A funeral to rejoice ; The apparitions ; A trial of five ; "Do not say a thing" ; The wonder drug ; Breaking glass

Epilogue.