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Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the medical advances that made 20th-century epidemics much rarer and less lethal. Micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) had been discovered in the 18th century, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert ...
The germ theory of disease proposes that invisible microorganisms (bacteria and viruses) are the cause of particular illnesses in both humans and animals. [2] Prior to medicine becoming hard science, there were many philosophical theories about how disease originated and was transmitted.
More than 5,000 skeletal specimens and 10,000 preserved organs document medical cases of disease and injury. The Otis Historical Archives [24] houses photographs, illustrations, and documents related to health and medicine. More than 350 different collections document, in pictures and words, the practice of medicine from the Civil War to the ...
Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about an illness resembling cholera about 2,400 years ago, as did Roman physician Galen roughly 500 years later in the 2nd century. [5] In the 16th century, an outbreak of acute diarrhea was reported to have occurred in the East Indies by the Dutch. [4] A similar outbreak was recorded in 1669 in China. [4]
In the American Civil War (1861–65), as was typical of the 19th century, far more soldiers died of disease than in battle, and even larger numbers were temporarily incapacitated by wounds, disease and accidents. [25] Conditions were worse in the Confederacy, where doctors and medical supplies were in short supply. [26]
Cholera caused more deaths than any other epidemic disease in the 19th century, [2] and as such, researchers consider it a defining epidemic disease of the century. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The medical community now believes cholera to be exclusively a human disease, spread through many means of travel during the time, and transmitted through warm fecal ...
Salisbury was born in Scott, New York, in 1823.He earned a Bachelor of Natural Sciences degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1844. He joined the New York Geological Survey as an assistant chemist, was promoted in 1849 to principal chemist, and remained in this position until 1852.
The Archive was instrumental in the recreation of turn-of-the-century medicine, [21] as Dr. Burns worked closely with production and the actors to make the hospital scenes realistic and authentic to the period. [22] [23] Dr. Burns provided immersive tutorials in the world of early-20th-century surgery, complete with hands-on practice. [24]