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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 ...
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 ...
A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. The life expectancy in 1850 of a White person in the United States was forty; for a slave, it was thirty-six. [ 1 ] Mortality statistics for Whites were calculated from census data; statistics for slaves were based on small sample-sizes.
A looming, colorful Queen Anne Victorian home has landed on the real estate market in a place where one wouldn’t normally see this particular design — the small town of Dublin, Texas.
Muerto Canyon disease: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome [16] Named for the area where it was initially identified. "Four Corners disease" is likewise deprecated. Norwalk virus: Norovirus [17] Named after the town of Norwalk, Ohio, where the disease was first distinctly identified. Phthisis: Tuberculosis [5] From the Greek word for consumption. Quinsy
The deadly mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in two Texas horses, marking the first reported cases of the disease in the state. The Texas Animal Health ...
I'm surprised how big cars and portion sizes are in Texas — and how common gun stores feel. Over the last 10 years, I've become accustomed to life in Texas .