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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 ...
Mar 28, 2008 · 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
- Ann G. Carmichael
- 1993
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Feb 20, 2021 · Abstract. This essay explores the amazing phenomenon that in Europe since ca. 1700 most diseases have shown a pattern of 'rise-and-fall'. It argues that the rise of so many diseases indicates that their ultimate cause is not to be sought within the body, but in the interaction between humans and their environment.
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- 2021
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
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.
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.
Typhoid was the common fever of the nineteenth century. It was perhaps the most democratic of the preventable diseases, common among the poor, but attacking the aristocracy and the well-to-do with equal frequency. In contrast to cholera, with which it epidemiologically had much in common, typhoid was a local and domestic problem.
