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The disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans annually during the 19th century and one-third of all the blindness of that time was caused by smallpox. 20 to 60% of all the people that were infected died and 80% of all the children with the infection also died. It caused also many deaths in the 20th century, over 300–500 million.
Thomas Thacher was an outstanding Puritan preacher and physician of his time. [6] After coming to America at fifteen, Thacher received his early education under pastor Charles Chauncy. Thacher's education was liberal; he learned elements of medicine. Thacher committed much of his time to the practice of medicine and was a prominent physician in ...
Modern medical science has labeled this transmission of disease as the fecal oral route. [38] But at that time, this route of disease was unknown to both physicians and the public. A baby named Frances Lewis was believed to be the first case which caused the outbreak. Her birth and death certificate match the time of the outbreak. A doctor ...
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...
Richard Morton published Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de Phthisi tribus libris comprehensae in 1689, in which he emphasized the tubercle as the true cause of the disease. So common was the disease at the time that Morton is quoted as saying "I cannot sufficiently admire that anyone, at least after he comes to the flower of his youth, can ...
Referred to the associated neurological issues of decompression illness. Undulant fever: Brucellosis [21] The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. White Plague: Tuberculosis [5] The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). Woolsorter's disease: Anthrax [22]
It’s that time of year again, when the misery of norovirus strikes much of the U.S. Each year the pathogen causes an average of 900 deaths, 109,000 hospitalizations, 465,000 emergency room ...
On Tuesday, parts of Central Texas saw their heat index rise to 115. In previous decades, Austin might see between five and 10 days in which the heat index rose above 111, Oaks said. Now, that ...