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2. encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net › article › healthHealth, Disease, Mortality; Demographic Effects ...

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   Nov 17, 2020 · This article is a comparative and transnational overview of both the demographic devastation caused by disease, and the ways wartime conditions determined health crises among combatants and civilians. It explores how incidence of disease shaped wartime societies, as well as national and international governance during and after the war.

3. www.britannica.com › topic › history-of-EuropeHistory of Europe - Health, Sickness, Disease | Britannica

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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.

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   What diseases were common in the 19th century?

   • 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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   What diseases killed the most people in WW2?

   • Bacterial, viral or parasite-based diseases such as malaria, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, smallpox, and venereal diseases killed more people than military clashes, and weakened armies and entire societies during the four years of combat.

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   Why was plague a 'quintessential disease' in the early modern world?

   • In this respect, plague was the quintessential disease experience of the early modern world, despite the relative infrequency of its incursions when compared to the whole range of other diseases that were less mortal in their effects, less frightening in their appearance, or not ‘catching’.

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5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesThe rise and fall of diseases: reflections on the history of ...

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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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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Diseases_and_epidemics_ofDiseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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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.

7. brianaltonenmph.com › gis › more-historical-diseaseThe 1890 Census Disease Maps - Brian Altonen, MPH, MS

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   The 1890 Census Disease Maps . This is primarily a review of the color, and black and white, disease maps. There are four sections: 1. National Maps in Color 2. Regional Maps of Diphtheria 3. National Maps in Black and White (poor quality) 4. Appalachia - Evaluation and Comparison . A few notes are added.…

8. www.thelancet.com › journals › laninfLondon's smallpox maps - The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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   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. Similar outbreaks had occurred at the end of the 18th century, at the time when Edward Jenner was doing his first experiments with vaccination, but had died down; in the early part of the 19th century ...

9. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 28045Disease and Medicine | The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern ...

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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 ...