Impact of Black Death on Medicine

The plague of 1348 also known as the “Black Death”, was an epidemic that changed the world. It got its name from the black spots it would give people. The Black Death was the most devastating pandemic in all of human history killing millions, but it wasn't the deadliest of all plagues. What made it so lethal was how easily it was transmitted by fleas and threw airborne droplets of saliva from coughs of the infected(“Social and Economics Effects of the Plague.”). The plague affected manly…

The Black Death was the largest disaster in European history which killed off more than one-third of the total population. Infectious rats could be found on almost every merchant caravan or trade ship which carried the disease throughout Europe rather quickly. This infectious disease was found in three different forms; septicemic, pneumonic, and bubonic. Septicemic plague occurred when the bacteria multiplied in the blood killing the host in a matter of days because it showed the least amount of…

" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plague). The plague comes from the organism with the scientific name Yersinia Pestis. If the disease is left untreated, it can progress to become very severe. The plague caused upwards of fifty million deaths during the 14th century alone. (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs267/en/) There were a total of three plague pandemics that swept throughout the world and they were all different in means of geography and transportation.…

Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2014). A stroke occurs when either a clot or bursts causes damage to the brain tissue. The damage then hinders the blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain, which can cause some brain cells to die. A stroke may be caused by an artery being blocked, also known as an ischemic stroke, or by a blood vessel bursting and rupturing, known as hemorrhagic stroke. “About eighty-five percent of strokes are ischemic…

the United State. While the definite cause of the infant mortality is still unknown, there are factors that are associated with the infant death. By looking at the trends between the trends between 1960 and 1995, we learn about many of these factors. Infant mortality rate declined slowly from 1960 to 1964, perhaps that is because the gap in mortality between black and white infants narrowed dramatically in this time period. Further more, post-neonatal mortality declined more rapidly than…

Disease during the Elizabethan time Era had a major impact on people and their lives. In that era there were tremendously terrible diseases such as the Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, and Typhoid that killed almost around the third of the population. From a disease standpoint that was arguably the worst time in history because of all of the illnesses being spread around. There was no type of cure for most of the diseases so some people had to suffer. If they were lucky then they survived but…

The Black Death was one of the most devastating diseases in human history. The disease spread fast and covered the territory from China to England and the western part of Europe, covering almost all of Europe within several years. The disease was mysterious to Medieval people, the medicine back in the day was underdeveloped to fight such a disease as the Black Death, which was thought to be a plague. The development and spread of the disease was fast and started the depopulation of Europe. At…

a greater extent as it is seen as the greatest accomplishment in medicine history because it saved thousands of lives during a time of need in World War II. Alexander Fleming is known for the discovery of penicillin. After serving his country as a medic in World War I, he returned to London where he began his career as a bacteriologist. There he started his search for more effective antimicrobial agents. Having witnessed the death of many wounded soldiers in World War I, he noticed that in many…

something to be feared. Spider's are helpful to us in many ways, killing pests, having venom can be used in medicine, and in honesty they don’t harm people as much as we harm them. There are many who think spider bites are the worst possible bug bite, but that isn’t true. Not many spiders can actually pierce the human skin, and there are barely any that have strong enough venom to have a negative impact on our body. In fact, scientists…

eventually cause health problems, such has heart disease ( www.mayoclinic.org). However, hypertension commonly know has high blood pressure is much more common in the African American community. There was a study done in an urban ambulatory internal medicine clinic in southeast Michigan. Enrolled in the study where African Americans aged 18 to 85 years of age. The result of this study showed that African American was the most prevalence of any other group (Larsen et al.,2014, p.801). Many…