HMED 3075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sickle-Cell Disease, Pertussis, Yellow Fever
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Lecture: race and medicine in the 19th century. Reading: lundy braun, spirometry, measurement, and race in the nineteenth. Century. journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences(2005) 60: 135-169. Primary source: thomas w. murrell, m. d. 1869 15th amendment allowed african american men to vote. Disease and racial difference on the slave plantation: slavers used these reasons as an excuse to justify slavery they were inferior to whites. Resistance to malaria among slaves: acquired immunity from endemic areas/repeated infections, heredity conditions conferring immunity prevalent in african slave-trading regions. Red blood cells lack duffy antigen (immunity to malaria) Slaves" intolerance of cold climate: lower lung capacity, dissipated more heat through skin, eliminated more carbon through liver, increased susceptibility to and incidence of respiratory infections, increased incidence of frostbite. Other medical differences: increased typhoid fever, worms, dysentery, consumption, decreased incidence of yellow fever due to greater resistance. Communicable diseases from poor living conditions: whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, and mumps.
