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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.
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- 2021
Tuberculosis, also known as “consumption,” “phthisis,” or the “white plague,” was the cause of more deaths in industrialized countries than any other disease during the 19th and early 20th centuries. By the late 19th century, 70 to 90% of the urban populations of Europe and North America were infected with the tuberculosis bacillus ...
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.
Jul 15, 2020 · At time of writing when several billion people are in ‘lock‐down’ the history of infectious diseases has a new relevance. Much important historical work on how epidemics and infectious disease were brought under control, the escape from premature death, and the sources of the spectacular long‐term improvements in life expectancy over the last two centuries has been published or ...
- Leigh Shaw-Taylor
- 10.1111/ehr.13019
- 2020
- Econ Hist Rev. 2020 Aug; 73(3): E1-E19.
diseases have shown a pattern of rise-and-fall, and then dis - cuss some implications of this generalized phenomenon. What does the fact that so many diseases have become more common, reveal about their causes? What explains the fact that most diseases have, after a longer or shorter period, retreated? And what are the implications of this ...
- Johan P. Mackenbach
- 2021
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Sep 23, 2020 · Image: Wikimedia Commons. Previous pandemics are believed to have shaped both national and international history. It is believed that when Europeans traveled to America, a century of exposure to disease they had not experienced before could have killed 95% of the population. It's difficult to predict what society would look like today had these ...
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.
