The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth . A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it.
Mary Mallon was the first healthy carrier of typhoid to be carefully traced in North America, but there were other healthy carriers - over 400 in New York City alone by the 1930s - whose treatment was much less harsh. Why did Mallon's case turn out as it did?
At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide.
Historical Fiction
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.
Ethnographic accounts and histories of peoples throughout the world. May contain information on how different peoples deal with particular diseases, and more, how they understand and cope with disease in general.
A full-text collection resources that chronicle the development of America across 150 years that include digitized images of the pages of magazines and journals.
Contains full text of a set of scholarly journals going back to their first issues, often in the 19th century. Good place to search for disease-related articles in a few medical and a few more general-science or general-knowledge scholarly journals. Does NOT contain most recent years of journals.
Specifically contains access to Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections.
Free account can be created for personalization. Date Coverage: Varies by title Maximum Users: Unlimited Truncation: Plurals: +
Searchable full-image of the Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), Los Angeles Times (1881-2000), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003), New York Times (1851-2020), Wall Street Journal (1889-2012) and the Washington Post (1877-2007).
Contains searchable PDF's of materials published in Colonial America and the early U.S. such as books, pamphlets, and broadsides. The collection may be browsed by topic (e.g., Genre: Songs, Economics: Liquor Traffic, History: Louisiana Purchase,etc.)
Sydendham lived from 1624-1689. Much of the work he would have written or had access to would have been in Latin, hence the need for an English translation of an English physician's works.
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