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  1. Christian of Brunswick was consumed in 1626 “by a gigantic worm”; Charles II of Spain, dying in 1700, was held to be bewitched; men suffered from “the falling sickness” and “distemper.”. There are no reliable statistics about height and weight. It is difficult even to define what people regarded as normal good health.

  2. Feb 2, 2022 · Malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bites. Common symptoms of the disease are fever, tiredness, vomiting, headache and in severe cases, yellow skin, seizures, and death. Cases of malaria were much more prominent in the South in the 18th and 19th centuries with the warmer, wetter climates that ...

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  4. Feb 20, 2021 · Europe’s industrialization and urbanization then led to the rise of other diseases, including tuberculosis. The history of this disease has become famous through the work of Thomas McKeown (1912–1988), who showed that the decline of tuberculosis in England had started long before the introduction of antibiotics.

    • Johan P. Mackenbach
    • 2021
  5. Part V The History of Human Disease in the World Outside Asia; V.1 Diseases in the Pre-Roman World; V.2 Diseases of Western Antiquity; V.3 Diseases of the Middle Ages; V.4 Diseases of the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe; V.5 Diseases and the European Mortality Decline, 1700–1900; V.6 Diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860

  6. An 1802 cartoon of Edward Jenner 's cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.

  7. Nov 17, 2020 · Taking this into account, this subsection uses some key studies and maps the main epidemiological crises and the extent of the devastation that disease caused. When it comes to combatant losses of the British Empire, various data was reported in the decades after the war.

  8. Jun 12, 2015 · Lacking immunity to Old World pathogens carried by the Spanish, Hispaniola's indigenous inhabitants fell victim to terrible plagues of smallpox, influenza, and other viruses. Epidemics soon became a common consequence of contact. In April 1520, Spanish forces landed in what is now Veracruz, Mexico, unwittingly bringing along an African slave ...