Three Major Illnesses In The 1900's

Scarlet Fever affected the U.S in the 1900s and was caused by a bacteria that spread to form rashes that affected children and sometimes ending in death. The treatment was really dangerous. They didn’t have the treatments we do today, that 's why a lot of people were killed. Scarlet fever is one the most dangerous infections of the 1900s.

The town of Salem, Massachusetts was run by a strict theocracy. The Puritan theocracy looked down upon activities that would be considered “fun,” an example being dancing. If people were caught doing a sinful activity such as this, they could, and most often would, be punished. The punishment for dancing would usually involve being struck by a whip. This way of life was especially difficult for young children who had more energy to use than their lifestyle would allow. This was a cause that lead up to the events of the witch accusations.

At the time not even the most straightforward diseases, for example,not even the common cold was curable. Until the best medicinal disclosure at the time was accidently found in 1928. Starting its potential amid World War 2, the entire world needed its hands on it. It was Penicillin. Penicillin left an imprint in our history, it expanded medicinal innovation, manufacturing and even diminished diseases. it increased medical technology, manufacturing and even decreased infections.

You will be surprised when you find out how much medicine has changed over the years. In the 16th century medicine was viewed differently than medicine today. There were several areas in which medicine has changed since Shakespeare’s time. Some of the areas that have changed are in the areas of prevention, treatment, and illnesses.

Owning the complete collection of Grey’s Anatomy may make someone feel like an expert of the medical field, but when it comes down to knowing the diseases that were common during other periods of time, that understanding seems to be very limited. While diseases like the common cold have been around for a long time, there are many staple diseases that have shaped the medical field and the foundation for medicine today that need to be known. To fully understand diseases during the Elizabethan era, it is vital to understand the cause, type, and treatment of the illnesses that were common during that time period.

With the disease running rampantly throughout the city it was quickly brought up to the medical community where the debate over inoculation began. The debate was whether or not inoculation was safe, ethical, and even if it worked with the majority opposing the method due to the lack of proper research, ethical reasons, and even religious reasons. However one doctor by the name of Zabdiel Boylston took it upon himself to inoculate a group of 282 citizens. Out of the 282 who were inoculated only 6 died to the disease thereby proving that inoculation was not an unsturdy

Today, technology is the most relied on resource that people use. During the renaissance, medical technology was not very advanced, but advancements were still made. For example, the first “modern” physicians began to develop, studying physics and astronomy. The first disease to spread among thousands of people was syphilis. It spread from sailors from Columbus’s first voyage to Spanish soldiers to French troops. The research into the human anatomy began during this period, which led to several medical misconceptions.

In Drew Faust book, This republic of suffering, Faust attempted to depict the social impact the Civil War had on the American people. In decribing individual stories, and going beyond the tactial information about the battles fought, this retelling of the Civil war pays homage to the individual lives that sacraficed and persevered during one of the most trying times in the nation. The act of dying is described in nine different acts, dying and killing,burying, naming, realizing, believeing and doubting, and accounting. Amongst the many differences between Union and Confederate soilders, the unifying sting of death united them, as well as the mothers, widows and orphans that the deceased left behind. The combined stress of fatalities, the economic

The hot summers came along with intense heat, heavy rainfall, mosquitoes everywhere, and open sewers. Although these odors did a great danger on the people’s health business would still go on. Since the Americans had just won the Revolutionary War everyone was celebrating and too busy to notice the fever walking among them. In the streets of Philadelphia quarantine was very low standard. “Dead dish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air.” Even though no one had cared about how sanitary the city was this was one of the reasons the disease spread. All the rotten foods and dead animals attracted mosquitoes which then spread the disease from one person to the next. Environment around the people did a major part in spreading the deadly

According to Devine about 2,642 cases of gangrene were reported. During the Civil War the physicians believed that gangrene was caused by some strands of streptococci, after the war bacteria gangrene became known as ‘gas gangrene’ and soldiers needed to be isolated. Gangrene was contagious, they blamed this on poorly ventilated rooms and crowded hospitals. Bollet wrote that some “tents were well ventilated and few patients, thus decreasing the opportunity for erysipelas and hospital gangrene to spread.” Erysipelas was a skin infection similar to gangrene. The Civil war physicians that studied gangrene lesion used the microscope which revealed dead tissue blood vessels in the area occluded with “stagnant blood” and these microscopic organisms they observed was a result of infection. According to Adams “the gangrene patient might see a black spot the size of a dime, appear on his healing wound, and watch with horrified interest its rapid spread until his whole leg or arm was but a rotten, evil-smelling mass of dead flesh” Even though they did not establish bacteriology the physicians understood that the disease was destructive. This led to studies of the disease and there was a demand for cleanliness and the use of disinfectants in hospitals. This demonstrates a positive impact of the Civil War on medicine because physicians

Between the years of 1800 and 1900, the North American social and political landscape changed by the presence of so many African people, who brought with them several centuries of civilization. Africanized America in terms of medicine. In this paper, I will be exploring the influence of Africans on the American traditions of medicine.

In Philadelphia 1973 early August, a robust and fatal disease had emerged through the garbaged pavement roads and city ‘sinks’. Dr. Hugh Hodge was one of the first to encounter the deadly disease, and it taking the life of his daughter days before meeting with a new patient with the same grotesque symptoms. Hugh and his colleague Dr. John Foulke cautiously cared for Catherine LeMaigre, reciting and reviewing previous documents that would provide treatments for such a harmful, painful disease. The tactics both the Doctor’s had used didn’t help with Catherine’s well being, and thus astonishing them since they haven’t ever seen prestigious methods shot down. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a well respected man and founding father of the United States, had rushed to the news of Catherine, and then decided the fatal disease was Yellow Fever. Many of the physicians at the time in Philadelphia dismissed Rush’s claim as crazy and spontaneous. Rush had thought and expressed the rest of those in the same profession as him were

The Australian Aboriginals also suffered large losses from the disease in the 19th century. (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica 2017)

Diseases such as smallpox, measles, and syphilis were being spread out across the globe, due to the new interaction of people from different areas of origin. With the Columbian Exchange in full force, the new worlds were coming in contact which changed the lives of the everyday people. The diseases were caused by interaction with bodies of people who were not immune to the certain bacteria. The Americas were hardly hit, for no one knew of it, while they already were all in contact with each other already (Asia, Europe, Africa). None of the Native Americans were expecting such a hit of diseases. According to www.learncc.org, “The figure most often cited is that 90 to 95 percent of the native population of the Americas died between the time Columbus landed in the Caribbean and the end of the eighteenth century.” A huge percentage of the deaths were caused by the sweeping of diseases throughout the world. With all the newcomers, no one was ready for what was about to hit them. After the suffering in the New World, it began to uprise in Europe. Then, after time, began to spread towards Asia and Africa. In a while, it was worldwide. The diseases changed the environment of both worlds. They killed tens of thousands

number of those infected rose exponentially every day and it had a large death rate. What