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2 days ago · During a Cholera Epidemic in the Gilbert Islands, Mass Vaccination Against the Cholera Outbreak Did Take Place but Not as Much Emphasis was Place On It / WHO photo by Tin Maung Maung Image Courtesy World Health Organization NLM Unique ID: 101437058 See the LocatorPlus catalog record Image A013813 from Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
1 day ago · The first known cholera pandemic began in India in 1817. The rise of international trade and travel soon brought cholera to North America and Europe in waves of outbreaks. A two-year outbreak in England beginning in 1848 prompted Snow to publish the first edition of On the Mode of Communication of Cholera in 1849. He rejected the miasma theory.
5 days ago · Bella Druckman. Many epidemics and pandemics have plagued New York City such as cholera in mid-1800s to diphtheria from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. As more diseases struck New York...
4 days ago · Sarah Gould. On hot summer days, Parisians escape to the suburb of Fontainebleau. After the Château Royal, the forest is the city’s second monument, or at least that’s the way Théodore Rousseau saw it: a refuge from inflation, pollution, noise and epidemics (in 1849, artists confined themselves there to escape a cholera outbreak), and an ...
3 days ago · Cholera killed close to 1,000 more people by 1834, but the second wave hit New York in 1849 when over 5,000 people died. Despite efforts by the city to stop the disease’s spread, it killed...
3 days ago · The cholera panic led to the organization of the 1851 International Sanitary Conference in Paris, which drew many European and medical diplomatic envoys from countries such as Lisbon, Paris, London, Moscow, and Vienna. Their major aim was to devise effective ways of coping with epidemic diseases.
2 days ago · A cholera epidemic struck Nashville in 1849–1850, taking the lives of 627 Nashvillians including former President James K. Polk who is buried on the Capital grounds.
