History 2186A/B Lecture 2: Lecture 2- Disease Panics in the Old World (Jan 18th 2018)
6 Feb 2018
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Lecture 2: disease panics in the old world (jan 18th 2018) The history of epidemic disease: most people throughout human history thought that life was brutal and short, due to disease. In the final stage the body goes blue and black and the person will die within 6 hours: has been constant since it arrived out of india with 7 great pandemics, still kills around. Cholera is on the door step but never really reached rural ireland. Short-term triggers: dr. john snow in 1854 in london there was a cholera epidemic and he started to look into what happened, because no one else knew how it worked. Increases the speed of disease, in the 14th century the bubonic plague moves by 2 miles a day. In the 19th century when it hit india, the disease moved around 8 miles per year.
