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Nov 3, 2014 · This chapter surveys the history of medicine and health from the middle of the fourteenth century through the mid-eighteenth century. It discusses major points in that history: diseases and their impact in early modern Europe; the generation and distribution of medical knowledge including education and training; medical practice in all its form ...
Feb 20, 2021 · It is amazing that so many diseases have shown a pattern of rise-and-fall. Why, in the course of European history, have so many diseases become more common? And why have most of these diseases subsequently declined, or at least become less lethal?
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- 2021
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There is plenty of material on diseases, particularly in accounts of symptoms and “cures,” but the language is often vague. 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.”.
In his study of world population published more than 50 years ago, A. M. Carr-Saunders (1936) observed that the population of western Europe had begun to increase by the early eighteenth century, if not earlier, as a result of a growing gap between births and deaths.
Mar 28, 2008 · Because this time period coincides with technological innovations and the subsequent exploration and conquest of new worlds, we are inclined to associate the issue of Renaissance diseases with both the growth of cities and the age of European discovery.
- Ann G. Carmichael
- 1993
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.
Clare Sansom. Published: March, 2015 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099 (15)70076-9. London's smallpox maps. During the 1870s and 1880s, London was gripped by a series of epidemics of a virulent, and often fatal, form of smallpox.
