HIST 122 Lecture 7: Notes (Oct 25, 2017)
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Public health china and india already had it, radically changed the demography of europe. Distinctive features of bubonic plague: virulent: ability for pathogen to cause harm and symptoms in the human body (frank. Cause and spread: yersinia pestis: two vectors or carriers rodents and fleas, starts as an epidemic amongst animals, mongols connected us, spreading it faster. Hist 122: week 7 lecture notes (oct 25, 2017) Rise to many cults and plague saints. God never liked us : medical sciences: humoral explanation of diseases failed, art: affected paintings, architecture, literature plague columns, public health: (not prominent in europe) quarantines, sanitary cordons, lazarettos, Explaining: wrath of god apocalypse, ghost ships floating in the mediterranean, crew all died, ship still floating in sea, miasmatism: directly connected to stench and the uncleanliness of urban areas, no one cleaned out the dead villages. *** every epidemic is compared to the black plague.
