Cholera's Misconceptions

As riots and rebellions matured, Russian’s were quarantined by brutal and repressive means to maintain choleras spread, as relentless medical professionals exercised their resources and resourcefulness under the most difficult of circumstances as medicine and theories were tested beyond margins. Patterns began to be made by on lookers with idea looking for a cause and cure for the indisposed Russian’s. Dr. Rauch, an Imperial Physician in Ordinary affirmed, “Cholera will not be cured by nature’s powers alone without the help of [medical] art”...and statistics indicated that the mortality rate was lower within the group of people who chose to seek medical attention compared to those who chose not to. Russian’s were encouraged to seek medical …show more content…
Cholera affected an assortment of ethnic, social, and cultural features in Russian society, putting many of Russia’s misconceptions about cholera attacking the poor and those without faith to rest. Studies continued and society became more open to new ideas, relinquishing many misconceptions that were held as theory. Theories were continually misinterpreted as misconceptions multiplied in power to command actions towards warding off cholera. In the middle of the nineteenth century, significant evidence was found in which specific sanitary policies could be based. It was theorized that cholera was ingested by the means of unsanitary water, resulting from overcrowded, and filth reckoned regions. Within nineteenth century Russia, government responsibilities were not only to force the sick into quarantine, but now they extended to maintaining housing conditions, sanitary facilities as well as all details in human life in a complex society. Reforms in sanitation, housing, and controls over living conditions, affected cholera incidentally, and those regions which were farthest advanced in social controls and reform policies were those soonest freed of choleras …show more content…
America believed their Christian faith would pardon them from cholera. The history of cholera seemed to validate the misconception that those countries with fewest Christians had would be attacked by cholera most severely. It was believed, poverty was a vice that predisposed people to cholera, and because they were wealthy they were protected. As America compared itself to other countries that have been rampaged with cholera, America was assured they were safe because America’s wealth far exceeded other countries in comparison. America genuinely believed in miasmas, yet had no sufficient cleaning apparatus to remove the waste and filth from the streets that were left behind from the livestock roaming its grounds. Nevertheless, when the world’s largest oceans, religion or wealth had the ability to divert cholera from America, there was no other choice but to ride upon other misconceptions as reason for cholera in the United States. America then adopted the misconception that, cholera was punishment coming from God’s own hand and that many those who fell before cholera were enemies of