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Side effects of laudanum are generally the same as with morphine, and include euphoria, dysphoria, pruritus, sedation, constipation, reduced tidal volume, respiratory depression, as well as psychological dependence, physical dependence, miosis, and xerostomia. Overdose can result in severe respiratory depression or collapse and death.
John James Audubon, famous ornithologist, caught yellow fever on arrival in New York City when he emigrated to the United States in 1803. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 1851. Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist), died at age 29 in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Haven, Connecticut and New York City.
Yellow fever vaccine is a vaccine that protects against yellow fever. [4] Yellow fever is a viral infection that occurs in Africa and South America. [4] Most people begin to develop immunity within ten days of vaccination and 99% are protected within one month, and this appears to be lifelong. [4] The vaccine can be used to control outbreaks of ...
Quinine remained the antimalarial drug of choice until after World War II. Since then, other drugs that have fewer side effects, such as chloroquine, have largely replaced it. [71] Bromo Quinine were brand name cold tablets containing quinine, manufactured by Grove Laboratories. They were first marketed in 1889 and available until at least the ...
The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2] Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired ...
GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss involve all kinds of side effects—good and not-so-good—that may or may not strike the average user. (Reminder that there are many of these meds now.
The entire Mississippi River Valley from St. Louis south was affected, and tens of thousands fled the stricken cities of New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Memphis.The epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley also greatly affected trade in the region, with orders of steamboats to be tied up in order to reduce the amount of travel along the Mississippi River, railroad lines were halted, and all the ...
The family gets its name from the yellow fever virus; flavus is Latin for "yellow", and yellow fever in turn was named because of its propensity to cause jaundice in victims. [3] There are 89 species in the family divided among four genera. [2]