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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.
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Feb 20, 2021 · 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
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 ...
Mar 28, 2008 · 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; V.7 Diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa since 1860; V.8 Diseases of the Pre-Columbian Americas; V.9 Diseases of the ...
Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century. First appearing in Europe and North America beginning in 1831–1832 and presumed to have come from India, epidemic cholera returned and traveled around the world many times through the end of the century, killing many thousands. Causing profuse and violent cramps, vomiting and diarrhea, with dehydration ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Cities have historically been centers of commerce, industry, and...disease. In the early 1800s, cities became so populated and densely packed that diseases began to spread at an unprecedented rate. All hope seemed lost until a series of critical scientific discoveries, which triggered a revolution in urban sanitation and health.
