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    the initial recording of Syphilis in 1494, the disease outbreak has experienced fluctuations in numbers between genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations throughout the decades. According to a report discharged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014), “The rate of primary and secondary syphilis increased 11.1 percent since 2011, with most cases accounting for the increase occurring in gay and bisexual men.”…

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    The spread of tuberculosis in society changed the way medicine was approached to a more scientific focus. The disease also shifted the idea that the sick should not be helped to one more focused on community. Malcolm Morris calls for a “crusade against tuberculosis” in his article titled “The Prevention of Consumption.” In the article, Morris focuses on the way tuberculosis is transmitted, action by public authorities, sanatoriums, and the help for all people as ways to combat tuberculosis.…

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    Dr. Rousseau said that there are two fields managers can observe evidence-based practice impacts. They were affected by legislative decisions: policing and secondary education. In policing, police officers treat suspects politely to reduce repeating offences. On the other hand, in education, with students who have difficulties passing their courses. Their schools restored the practice of social promotion. The result was lowering the rate of drug usage and increasing the chances of being…

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    Childbed Fever Dbq

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    be, the act of washing hands to prevent infections wasn’t so apparent up until the late 1800s. Back when doctors and medical students would move from dissecting a corpse straight to performing surgery on a patient, what is now known as infectious diseases were attributed to various reasons, and as every human being is in someway distinct from others, it was suggested that the cause of every death was too (Semmelweis seal., n.d.). In the 1840’s, and due to an increasing rate of puerperal fever…

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    sharecroppers who were infected with syphilis. The earliest phase of the experiment was in 1932 in Macon County, Alabama. They wanted to observe the effects of the disease and trace it back to its evolution. Sadly, these men were placebos. They were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about the consequences of the disease; and, they were giving absolutely no health care. They were not giving penicillin, the drug that could save their lives, but instead doses of aspirin to relieve…

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    Bubonic Plague Sanitation

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    The term “Black Death” is recent. During the plague it was called the Great Morality or the pestilence. The bubonic plague is a disease that is non-native to Europe and is passed from rodents and fleas. Outbreaks of the plague started as early as 430 B.C in Athens, Greece. Despite the bubonic plague killing 30 to 60 percent of the population there was a silver lining to its dark cloud, it caused advancements in medicine, hygiene and also lots of job openings. The bubonic plague was a terrible…

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    For centuries, tuberculosis was thought to be an insidious, implacable theft of life, the germ of death itself. When a person was diagnosed with tuberculosis it was like a death sentence. Its cause was unknown until in 1882 German physician and scientist Robert Koch discovered the bacterium that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This discovery has contributed to many other important events across multiple scientific disciplines. It is what lead him to receive the Nobel Prize and is…

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    risk factor for testicular cancer, but it is the first that has looked at marijuana use." Known risk factors for testicular cancer include genetics, undescended testes, and problems with testicular development. There is also a widely held theory that the disease starts in…

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    “Diarrheal disease , a catchall category of intestinal illnesses chiefly of infancy, it embraced cholera infantum, “summer complaint,” dysentery, and other diseases whose common symptom was diarrhea. The disease spread through bowel excreta under condition of inadequate sanity facilities or through contaminated water and milk” (Leavitt,1982). The percentage…

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    Adam Smith, a philosophe of the Enlightenment, developed the four-stage theory to explain Europe’s contact with the rest of the world. He said they discovered new lands in the 17th century then created mercantile empires to trade between the motherland and the colonies. Europe traded with the New World up until the 1820s. They…

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