Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
Disease
The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
The outbreak caused political, military, economic, and religious upheaval. Introduction The Plague of Cyprian erupted in Ethiopia...
The horrific death toll reduced the number of taxpayers, recruits for the army, candidates for public office,...
Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader’s intelligence....
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World...
Urban centers especially had become centers of plague and disease outbreaks. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction People in...
Looking at quarantine use — and abuse — over the ages. China is building a quarantine center...
Medieval society was compelled to adapt to the presence of the chronically ill. Conventional narratives tell us...
The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in...
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
The spread of yellow fever was a result of complex ecological and demographic changes produced by the...
Recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that the yellow fever virus is approximately 1,500 years old. In many environmental...
Many diseases have affected the outcomes of battles or the political leanings of a country, but few...
Smallpox hits the Aztecs, from the Florentine Codex, Book 12, 16th century / Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence Lecture...
President George Washington’s decision to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox very likely helped the American Colonies win...