Plague of Athens

Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to…

Have you ever wonder why blackheads are described as stubborn blackhead? You can pinch, pop and squeeze, but they never seem to go away. In fact, you are inviting more of that problem to appear. Blackheads are open comedones, enlarged hair follicles that are clogged with dead skin cells and sebum. They are black because the melanin in sebum comes into contact with oxygen and it oxidizes, and turns black. On the other hand, Whiteheads are closed comedone, where the pores are covered and…

The Barbie Anomaly The success of Barbie as a meme in owed to her creator Ruth Handler. She was married to the co-owner of renowned toy company Mattel, and avid in the business and brought many ideas of success to her husband’s desk. Her greatest idea began when she saw her daughter Barbara playing with a paper doll. She decided that a three-dimensional plastic doll with an adult body would much more enjoyable for kids. Her idea was put on hold, though, because her husband and his partner…

The Sweating Sickness In the Medieval Times most people have heard of The Black Death, meanwhile medieval English went through an epidemic called the sweating sickness. The sweating sickness took thousands of lives. Even though the sweating sickness took more lives than the Black Death, it grew infamous because its victims who got it died within 24 hours by sweating to death. Scientists say there is antibiotics to cure the illness but don’t know how a person becomes about with it, modern…

common thing. However, in the present day scientific advances in medicine and science have aided those significantly in the combat against these diseases. To begin with, diseases like those of the Bubonic Plague and SARS originated from virus/bacteria, and only surfaced when exposed. The Bubonic Plague is caused by a bacterium identified as Yersinia pestis, or Y pestis. It was first discovered in the province of Yunnan in China during 1334. “…the bacterium Yersinia pestis began its long march…

In 1914 Australian men went out to sign up for war many not knowing what they were signing up for. The Australian troops had a tough life on the Western Front as they had to face horrid conditions not only fighting and risking lives for their country but living in places where you get bad trench conditions including trench foot and fever, have pests which bring diseases and steal your food, have health problems and not able to treat them as there isn’t much aid for everyone to be treated. The…

The Great Wall of Ancient China: Did the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? The Great Wall was originally built by the Xin and Han Dynasty to keep out the Mongolians. However, the benefits of the wall did not outweigh the costs. According to Document C, there was many casualties while building the wall. Peasants died by working in low temperatures with little food and soldiers died "from hunger, sickness, and extreme heat or cold." This shows that building the wall killed people, even though the…

The empanada is a food that holds a copious amount of significance throughout many different countries and cultures. Although, It’s impact seems to be the most poignant in Latin America. This dish originates from Spain but has since spread across the globe. All through Latin America, depending on location, the empanada takes different forms and is crafted with different ingredients, however, they always share the same rudimentary traits. Empanadas are a semi-circular hand patty that is made…

Egyptian scientists have come up with King Tut supposedly dying from Gangrene. The infection somehow infested his body through an open wound from a fractured left leg. Without the proper medical treatment through antibiotics, the rotting stage was nearly absolute. How the whole fracturing of the leg goes is the mystery. Massive trauma is believed to be what places him on his death bed. Many experts have come up with a possible chariot crash. Some experts believe Tut was on his knees when a…

Shigella Infection, Adult A shigella infection is an infection of the intestines that can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and other symptoms. The infection usually lasts 5 to 7 days. CAUSES This infection is caused by shigella bacteria. This bacteria can spread through a person's stool. You can get this infection by: Eating a food or drink a liquid that has the bacteria on it. Touching something that has the bacteria on it and putting your hand in your mouth. Swimming in water…