Typhoid fever

matter of cattle contaminated fruits 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…

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…

("Claude Oscar Monet Biography"). Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851 at the age of eleven. Upon his mother’s death at age sixteen Monet moved in with his aunt. Years later while he was in the military he contracted typhoid fever and his aunt got him out of the army if he agreed to complete and art course. Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris where he made several acquaintances and where he learned new approaches to art which led to impressionism ("Claude…

Mutant Down Under written by Marlo Morgan takes us to Australia and opens our eyes to different traditions, and rituals. In this book, Marlo tells a story of her experiences with a nomadic tribe called the Aboriginals. The Aboriginals have a deep understanding and relationship with nature. Each of their practices demonstrate there robust relationship with nature and their environment. The Aboriginals is a group that America could diffidently learn from. In the book she talked about meals she…

How do we know the Holocaust happened? The Holocaust was a ‘solution’ created by the Nazis to “solve their Jewish problem” Survivors say it started on January 30th 1933 and finished May 8th 1945, when the Nazis were defeated by allied forces. Holocaust deniers usually ignore all the evidence of the event and insist that the numbers and story were invented by the Jews and the Allies for their own benefit. Also, in this essay when I refer to “Jews” or “Jewish people” I am usually meaning Jewish…

In his book Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt describes his childhood in Ireland. After the death of his sister in New York, his family relocated to Ireland, where his parents had family, hoping to receive assistance from their families and have a better life. Instead, they find themselves living in abject poverty. Having an alcoholic father who was unable to hold down a job and drinks away his earnings, the family was forced to survive in horrible conditions, living only on the meager amount they…

tobacco, planters brought in a large number of English workers, most of which were indentured servants. But the fact that there weren’t many women present in the Chesapeake region doubled with the high mortality rate due to disease (malaria, dysentery, typhoid) slowed the population growth considerably, as well. Furthermore, fluctuations in tobacco prices caused Chesapeake to plunge into a prolonged economic depression from 1660 to the early 1700s, which caused the discouraged colonists to take…

The Transatlantic slave trade continued to persist because of its money making value. Europeans, as well as Africans benefited profit wise from the Transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade was allowed because the slave trade reaped benefits from state support. In Nell Irvin Painter 's, Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 To the Present, Painter hits upon the fact that African Aristocrats allowed kidnappers free rein and collected taxes on captives passing…

went into poverty, and his mother opened a small school to save them from starvation and homelessness. His mother taught him until he was ten. At eleven years old, he fell ill with pleurisy, an inflammation of his lungs, and later was sick with typhoid fever, from which he nearly died. He was berated with another cause of pleurisy and after he recovered from that with the help of his mother, he contracted tuberculosis, which would slowly kill him over his next twenty years. Because he knew he…

Pirate ships in the Golden Age of Piracy weren’t very pleasant places to live. It was an exciting life, to be sure, but things weren’t always easy for the sailors. Diseases and injuries were common among the crew. Doctors were scarce and not always well trained, and many pirates died. It is a wonder that so many men chose the pirate life! Life on a pirate ship was greatly influenced by sickness, injuries, and often harmful treatments for both. When pirate problems are mentioned, most people…