Common Diseases of the 18th and 19th Century

There were several common illnesses that were found throughout the United States impacting people of all walks of life, young and old, rich, and poor.

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever.

The rise and fall of diseases: reflections on the history of population ...

Some diseases, such as plague and typhus, started to decline as early as the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. Others, such as puerperal ...

Doctors and Medicine in the Early 1800s - Charles Fergus

It was a time when dangerous diseases stalked the land, including smallpox, cholera, typhus, dysentery, yellow fever, scarlet fever, syphilis, ...

Are Victorian diseases making a comeback?

Typhoid during the Victorian era was incredibly common and remains so in parts of the world where there is poor sanitation and limited access to ...

The History of Infectious Diseases and Medicine - PMC

With the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the 19th century, the water-borne diseases of dysentery and cholera became common causes of death in many ...

Category:18th-century epidemics - Wikipedia

1707–08 Iceland smallpox epidemic · 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak · 1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic · 1772–1773 Persian Plague · 1782 Influenza pandemic ...

The History of Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Nature

Meningitis, including the invariably fatal tuberculous meningitis, was also a common affliction of children in the late 19th Century.

England Epidemics and Major Causes of Death A to R - FamilySearch

Cancer was regarded as purely a female disorder in the 18th century as the common ones, breast and cervical cancer, were often obvious.

Diseases Affecting 18th-Century Soldiers at Fort Pitt

It led to the popular study of this disease by the 19th century ... Inoculations in the 18th century occurred but were not common among provincial ...

Glossary of Medical Terms Used in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Synonyms: flux, bloody flux, contagious pyrexia (fever), frequent griping stools. Dr. Johnson defined it as a disease in which the excrements are mixed with ...

Historical Guide to Yellow Fever | American Experience - PBS

Yellow fever was a constant blight for eastern American cities — especially southeastern cities — in the 18th and 19th centuries ...

History of Smallpox - CDC

The earliest written description of a disease like smallpox appeared in China in the 4th century CE (Common Era). ... Expanding trade routes over the centuries ...

The medical response to epidemic disease during the long ...

Although eighteenth-century London was a far from healthy place, it was in many ways still a pre-industrial city: it was not until the nineteenth century that ...

Epidemics: Cholera in Nineteenth Century New York - Virtual NY

By the early nineteenth century, outbreaks of deadly disease had long been commonplace in New York City. Smallpox, Yellow Fever, measles, and malaria ...

Chapter 5 Health Problems of Industrializing Societies in - Brill

The four diseases that have been clustered in this section were important causes of childhood mortality in the 19th century. Scarlet fever, ...

History of medicine - 18th Century, Advancements, Practices

In 1796 Jenner began inoculations with material from cowpox (the bovine form of the disease). When he later inoculated the same subject with ...

England Epidemics and Major Causes of Death S to W - FamilySearch

Syphilis, or the French pox, (as well as other venereal diseases) were rampant and caused large numbers of the population to be deaf, blind, ...

Public health - National Developments, 18th & 19th Centuries

In the 19th century the efforts of health departments to control contagious disease consisted in attempts to improve environmental conditions. As ...

Disease in Colonial New England

It is common knowledge that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were devastated by smallpox, influenza, measles, and other diseases that ...