In this time of peril, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, I as a doctor am observing different treatments for Yellow Fever. In the city of Philadelphia, thousands of men women and children alike are dying of this nightmare come true. I will do as King George II says and make sure that should this happen in England, we’ll be ready Are the French doctors or the Philadelphia doctors better? They are similar, yet so different! What to chose what to choose… I will write the similarities and differences and from that information, I will figure out which is the best.…
Hospitals during the start of the war were set up in whatever buildings that were available, the only requirement was that they were a safe distance from the battlefields. The most usual places hospitals were set up in were buildings, churches, ships, barns and even wagons in the middle of battlefields. Patents were in close quarters at all times which helped spread diseases, the most common were dysentery, malaria, or typhoid. As casualties started to add up doctors realized that they needed more room for patients so, they began to build. Germs weren’t common knowledge in this era, all doctors understood was that fresh air was advocated with good health.…
The way they would treat the infection was by bloodletting and according to wikipedia.com bloodletting is, “the withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease. John Henry later passed from a stroke according to ibiblio.org. The Killer Angels is a very interesting book about the Civil War and the people who fought it. It was during a time where many lacked knowledge of cleanliness and many other medical practices.…
Henry Partridge). Yet again, since he wasn’t in the Vermont in the Civil War, there wasn’t much about how long he stayed in camp. But for most soldiers, camp life was awful. In them, many people died of infections because of the poor medicine available to them. Once a person was dead, they burned the bodies which wasn’t good for anyone's lungs or bodies.…
The hospitals in the civil war was unsanitary and unhealthy, which cause infections. This cause many soldiers to die during and after the war. In the book “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara, it stated “the hospital was an open field just back of the line”(page 237). Since the hospitals were located out in the open, this cause infection by bugs and other soldiers. The hospitals in this time isn’t germ free, but it was better than the hospitals during the civil war, it more sanitary and doesn’t cause infections for patients.…
A Review of Sick From Freedom Jim Downs, notable historian who researches the civil war and reconstruction’s effect on slaves is the author of the fascinating book Sick From Freedom. The Civil War is infamous for how disease claimed lives of more soldiers than military combat. In his book Downs exemplifies that disease and sickness actually had a more devastating effect on emancipated slaves than on soldiers. Downs encourages readers to look beyond military casualties and consider the public health crisis that faced emancipated slaves in the years following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Estimates show that at least a fourth of the four million former slaves got sick or died between 1863 and 1870, including at least 60,000 who perished in a smallpox epidemic that began in Washington and Spread throughout the south.…
A lot of people have been getting sick because the US soldiers did not have very good houses. The soldiers also got ill because they were shoeless and got frost bite. The soldiers had to battle in cold weather. At Valley Forge, in two months there were a total of 4000 soldiers who had died. There was an estimate of 1800 to 2500 deaths due to illness during encampment.…
O’Reilly wrote about the Confederacy’s condition during the four year war and how gruesome it was for the soldiers. “Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee’s men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene, and death.” (O’Reilly 57).…
Myron Colburn Chapter One For most soldiers in the Civil War it was a horrible scary time. There was hardly any sanitation and absolutely no knowledge infectious disease. It wasn’t quite as bad in the Navy. Since the boats were close to the river shores and on coastlines, there were ports where they could restock their food more easily than ground troops.…
The medicine in the Civil war was very unhygienic compared to modern day medicine. In the Civil war diseases caused sixty percent of deaths. Most soldiers had diseases, because the doctors or nurses did not sterilize or clean their equipment and there were a lot of bacteria in dead bodies everywhere. This is something Clara…
During the beginning of the war many died from disease and infection caused by the unsanitary conditions, so the commission created regulations reducing the number of deaths from these conditions. The Civil war was a significant time for medical advancements because of the influence the progress of that time has had on the procedures of today. The first major medical advancement from the Civil War is The Sanitary Commission. The Sanitary Commission was originally created by women in 1861 to promote health in the Union army camps.…
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health tells the story of Mary Mallon and what she had to go through at the beginning of the twentieth century. Typhoid Mary has “become a metaphor for a dangerous person who should be reviled and avoided (Leavitt).” Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author, is a professor of the history of medicine and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an author of several books (Judith). She uses Mary’s story to show the different perspectives of people who were affected by her disease. She shows how the public, law, medical professions, and Mary herself were influenced by this discovery.…
Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the…
It is about 50,000 years old (1). The disease which is called now as Typhoid was not recognized as a separate disease. Physicians used to combine it with other diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and tonsillitis. In the year 1820, Gerhard, American physician, differentiated it from other fevers (5). Furthermore, in the year 1829, Dr. Louis, French physician, also separated it from other fevers, and associated the fever with the pathologic lesion in the intestines, lymph nodes and spleen.…
TYPHOID FEVER: AN URBAN SCOURGE Typhoid fever is caused by infection with Salmonella typhi, a bacterial pathogen of humans. Typhoid bacteria are transmitted when people ingest contaminated food or water, or when contaminated sewage gets into water used for drinking or washing food. In the body, S. typhi inhabits the intestines and is shed in the feces. If the shedder doesn’t practice good hygiene, such as washing the hands after using the toilet and before handling food, he or she can spread the bacteria to others. Once S. typhi is ingested, it quickly spreads to the blood, producing headaches, upset stomach, and very high fever that can lead to death.…