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Nov 3, 2014 · The history of disease and medicine in early modern Europe is, like most histories, one of continuity and change. Over the course of the last several decades, older scholarship on science and medicine that emphasized medical progress, valorized the ‘great men of science and medicine’, and regarded ‘The Scientific Revolution’ as a movement that radically broke with the medieval world ...
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.
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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.
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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.
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 ...
Major Epidemics of the Modern Era. For more than a century, countries have wrestled with how to improve international cooperation in the face of major outbreaks of infectious diseases. The COVID ...
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
