History of Disease – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:51:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg History of Disease – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 A History of the Plague https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-the-plague/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:40:15 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=161557 Bubonic plague killed more than 25 million people, or at least one third, of Europe’s population during the

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]]> The Spread of Disease along the Medieval Silk Roads https://brewminate.com/the-spread-of-disease-along-the-medieval-silk-roads/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:49:04 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=160083 Trade and commerce brought enriching effects, but undesirable phenomena such as disease were also transmitted on a broad

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]]> Noah Webster: Chronicler of Disease and Epidemics in the 18th and 19th Centuries https://brewminate.com/noah-webster-chronicler-of-disease-and-epidemics-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 17:32:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157283 As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as an historian, he searched for the

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]]> Morbus Regius: The ‘King’s Evil’ and a Medieval Disease https://brewminate.com/morbus-regius-the-kings-evil-and-a-medieval-disease/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:07:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=153058 The idea that the royal touch could cure the infection persisted for 1,200 years down through the 18th

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]]> A History of Traditional Medicine https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-traditional-medicine/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:08:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=148592 Scientific disciplines which study traditional medicine include herbalism, ethnomedicine, ethnobotany, and medical anthropology. Introduction Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk

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]]> A History of Nurses Fighting Disease on the Front Lines https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-nurses-fighting-disease-on-the-front-lines/ Thu, 21 May 2020 20:10:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=125427 Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics, and other times of disaster. May 12 was

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]]> Disease Evolution: Our Long History of Fighting Viruses https://brewminate.com/disease-evolution-our-long-history-of-fighting-viruses/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:44:55 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=62231 A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom Thai/Flickr, Creative

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