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and vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, and celery. Their presence in food and water indicates that fecal contamination has occurred and that there is a high potential for the spread of serious disease such as typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery, cholera, and intestinal viral diseases1. There have been observed structural characteristics of E. coli that support this hypothesis. First, E. coli occurs mainly in the intestines of humans and some warm-blooded animals and it is not found routinely…

Womanly Rise of Stature The French Revolution was a harsh time of allocation and dissolution for women. A copious amount of men viewed women merely as property and servants. Evidently portrayed in the photo below, Euge `ne Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus. “Besieged by enemy troops and with little hope of survival, Sardanapalus orders that his harem women and prized horses go to their death with him. At the right, a guard stabs one of the women as the king looks on.” However, the tenacious…

From ancient times, humanity faced a variety of infectious diseases, accompanied by a high mortality rate despite the best efforts of doctors. These include smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, plague, and others (The history of vaccination). The doctors began to think about how to prevent epidemics kill millions of people in the middle Ages. A wound discharge was used already in the XII century for the prevention of smallpox in China from cows that were ill with smallpox (cowpox non-communicable…

The patients were being forced to lay in their own body waste. Basic supplies like clean water and bandages were limited. Most patients contracted infectious disease because lack of hygiene. They often contracted diseases like typhoid fever and cholera (Florence Nightingale). In their time, this was normal. With Nightingale’s help, the death rates went down by two-thirds. She had the most able-bodied patients scrub the hospital from top to…

water pollution. People would use the polluted water that has many different chemicals and toxins from waste as their drinking water. They did not have the ability to purify their water as we do now. By doing this, people would catch diseases such as cholera and typhoid. These diseases are highly feared and caused by contact with contaminated water or food. The food is contaminated by pollution of the land and crops as well as the many fertilizers that farmers would use on the crops. Other…

The theory, invention and implementation of vaccination is widely considered to be one of the greatest medical achievements of modern medicine. As the most effective method of preventing infectious and life-threatening diseases, vaccines have had a significant impact on civilization and the world. This essay will define vaccination and describe life before the invention of vaccines. It will discuss the key players attributed to inventing and implementing immunization. It will then describe the…

Body Snatchers in the 1800’s In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley our main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, steals body parts from dissecting rooms as well as getting the parts from charnel houses during the 1800’s in order to complete his creation. What Victor was doing was called grave robbing and at the time grave robbing was a common occurrence. It was common only in part to the medical fields need for bodies. So the knowledge gained from grave robbing outweighed the wrongdoings of the…

Water is undoubtedly one of the most essential components of life as we know it. Almost every living organism on earth needs water to survive. And while water is one of the most needed resources, it isn't always in large supply and it isn't always of usable quality. With the increasing numbers in human population continuing to rise– our world has become more developed, more congested and more polluted. Water pollution has become much more prevalent with the development of human settlements,…

Crime as a Disease Theory Contrary to popular belief, crime can be looked at many different ways. Some people believe criminals should be punished, other people believe that crime should be treated like a disease, and even some believe that there is no good way to handle crime. Many people believe that jail is a good solution to crime; however, there are people who are starting to believe that crime can be treated like a contagious disease. We all think of a disease as a cold, cancer, STD,…

Water has proven to be essential to everyday lives; yet many individuals in the world lack access to clean water. People need water to survive because this resource provides many benefits in keeping the human body vigorous. Benefits that comes to drinking water is that it helps maintain the balance of bodily fluids (Zelman). A study shows that the human body is composed of 60% of water, in which it helps in digesting,absorbing, or preserving normal body temperature.Other benefits that are…