HIST 104 Lecture Notes - Dysentery, Epidemiology, Yellow Fever
Document Summary
Britain was in the height of its power. This enabled cholera to spread quickly and extensively. Cholera wouldn"t have become such an epidemic without this and trade. Visualization of diseases (maps) has become the main point of epidemology. Xrays, machines became popular, following this trend of visualization. All societies have diseases, but the actual disease varies. Steampower allowed people to overcome current boundaries of production. Human and animal labour, wind and water power. People got motion sickness, run over by trains because they couldn"t gauge the distance and speed. New cities were springing up in industrial areas, squashing people together. Sewage became a huge problem because of the lack of sewers. Dysentry, smallpox, yellow fever spread in these new conditions. Trade and communication increased between parts of the world, created a new biological basis for disease. Quarantine practices softened after plague, called the time the enlightenment.
