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4 days ago · Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700–1900. Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2009, ISBN: 9781843835226; 248pp.; Price: £55.00. As its title suggests, this book covers developments in the medical service of the Royal Navy and among people who travelled aboard ships, whether as serving seamen, convicts, slaves or migrants.
3 days ago · Thus, in many ways Sheldon Watts's Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism is very much of its time, a 'big picture' history of disease focusing on medicine and public health in non-Western countries. It is major work of synthesis that develops in successive chapters histories of plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera ...
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1 day ago · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
15 hours ago · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
May 6, 2024 · History of medicine, the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Learn about medicine and surgery before 1800, the rise of scientific medicine in the 19th century, and developments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
3 days ago · The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans.
May 16, 2024 · "The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Old World -- by which we mean not just Europe, but the entire Eastern Hemisphere -- gained from the Columbian Exchange in a number of ways.
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