Since the discovery of penicillin is fairly recent, it was not even a consideration in the dark ages. Today the plague can be effectively treated in the same way was pneumonia, and if caught in early stages will render any symptoms barely noticeable. If not, any doctor fleeing champions can get a taste of the Great Pestilence. In short, we have come a long way in the scene of medical technology and the plague poses a much more miniscule threat than it once…
These people that were affected also caught a fever. The people also got dark spots all over their body. There were no known treatments for the plague. In…
Tay-Sachs disease is a extraordinary inherited disorder that progressively destroys nerve cells (neurons) in the brain and spinal cord. The most known form of Tay-Sachs disease becomes visible in infancy. Infants that are born with this disorder typically seem normal until they turn 3 to 6 months, when their advancement slows and muscles used for movement weaken. Affected infants aren't able to use their motor skills such as turning over, sitting, and crawling. They also develop an strong startle reaction to loud noises.…
After Completion of Crosby’s book. “The Columbian Exchange” the questions of what are the top three lasting effect today of the Columbian exchange? How do these effects relate to Crosby’s overall point and what is Crosby’s overall point? Discussion of the three lasting effects of Plants, Animals, and Disease will give the reader a better understanding of what Crosby was trying to make his main overall point of his book. Understanding the benefits and disadvantages of the Columbian exchanges between the New World and the Old Word and the reverse exchange helps one to better understand the Environmental history of our past, giving historians an in-depth look to the present and future.…
Here's a quote I would like to share. “We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.” (quotio.com) By Robert Owens. What if the Whitmans had never been born? What would happen?…
The History of Smallpox Smallpox once covered the globe. In Europe alone, 400,000 people a year use to die from it. It used to be extremely infectious. Smallpox started with little brown dots on your skin called macules.…
How did the black death affect the peasants? - Medicine and health was a very important part of the life for people in medieval England, to stay alive from the diseases’/sickness you had to have medicine. But some people couldn’t afford it. Unfortunately the peasants were part of those people who couldn’t afford to stay alive. It was sad because for the peasants in medieval England poor health/ diseases were a part of there daily routine.…
It's 1348, towns are full of the smell of burnt flesh and death, the dead are being burned on the outskirts of town. The event leading to this started in 1347, with a genoese trading ship entering the port city of Messina bringing with it the most catastrophic pandemic in European history, the "Black Death". How it started, the effects, the disease, how it works, and the Black Death in modern times are all thing you will learn about Europe's most destructive plague. Once the Black Death entered Europe it quickly spread to most European countries. No one who caught the disease survived, even though, now a days the Black Death has a 11% mortality rate in the United States when untreated, and is highly contagious.…
Scarlet Fever is an infectious bacterial disease affecting mostly children, and causing fever and a rash. It is caused by streptococci. Scarlet fever is one of those diseases that put fear into everyone's eyes when they heard someone around them had contracted it. The scarlet fever was first discovered in the 1600s by an english physician and researcher named Thomas Sydenham. Thomas had many other contributions like the treatment of smallpox.…
Event Name Type of Event Causes Course Consequences 1980 Election This was a political event because it caused a change in the government. Americans wanted a firm, patriotic leader who had a plan to fix the economic problems carrying over from the 1970s. Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, and Americans overall were very unhappy with his leadership. Ronald Reagan emerged as his challenger, a former actor with great public skills and a plan. They elected Ronald Reagan in 1980 who had a controversial plan for fixing the U.S. economy, later dubbed “Reaganomics.”…
Many people who were infected were frightened at the thought of death and they went into hiding to escape judgment from others. Another reason the infected were afraid, was because the thinking of many people during that time was to “Quarantine the diseased, gallows to punish and frighten the violators.” (Document 6). This may have scared many people into hiding as they did not want to be separated from their family or be sent to the gallows as punishment. While some people went into hiding in fear of being quarantined, others took more desperate measures and literally tried everything they could to cure themselves.…
Today pollution has another meaning compared to how it was defined during the Middle Ages. Currently, pollution is the introduction into the environment of a substance that has harmful effects. Immediately one 's mind jumps to factory smoke or chemicals. However, for most people, a person judged to be simply out of place is not one of those definitions. Pollution was viewed not in its modern sense of bacteria or chemicals, but as in odd sense that confuses and contradicts cherished classifications.…
Sepsis and What I Would Change from Current Practice Sepsis is one of the world's leading healthcare problems, which is more prevalent than cardiac arrest. The condition strikes approximately 30 million people worldwide annually. The majority of the victims either end up dying or suffering permeant health problems. The condition is still on record for claiming more lives compared to other deadly illnesses such as cancer, especially in less developed economies (Jawad, Luksic, & Rafnsson, 2012). The most shocking fact is that less than half of the population has knowledge about sepsis.…
They had an account for greed and treachery by the Europeans. The Europeans came over and introduces the Native American to disease like measles and other diseases. The Europeans came with families, and some of the children had measles. The European children would grow to immune the disease but the adult Native American could not fight off the disease because adults had not it as a child so could not acquired the immunity to measles. That in turn also started genocide within The Native American race.…
In this day in age, teeth is one of the most prominent features in a human being. It is used to consume, communicate, and simply recall another person just by describing it. One’s teeth is also a sign of wealth and personal hygiene. The practice of dentistry has evolved from a basic form of medicine to a state-of-the-art science.…