Download or read book The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and Other Cities in America written by New Orleans (La.). Sanitary Commission and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fearful Ravages written by Benjamin H. Trask and published by Louisiana Life. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the nineteenth century, New Orleans was stigmatized by an extremely high mortality rate . One of the major causes of this frightening annual death roll was yellow fever. The sporadic arrival of fever caused tens of thousands of citizens to flee; while at the same time, anxious neighbors in nearby towns tracked the fever's movement. The severity of yellow fever epidemics was erratic and puzzled physicians. In some years thousands of people perished; at other times only a handful died. This ghastly phenomenon appeared in the summer and remained until late autumn and marked New Orleans as a dangerous place. For decades the laymen in New Orleans determined the first frost was the sign that the fever was quickly fading, and for that reason residents hoped and prayed for this meteorological blessing" -- back cover.
Download or read book Exploring Everyday Landscapes written by Annmarie Adams and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.
Download or read book History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever at New Orleans Louisiana In 1853 written by Erasmus Darwin Fenner and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Yellow Fever Race and Ecology in Nineteenth Century New Orleans written by Urmi Engineer Willoughby and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city’s place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development. Willoughby argues that transnational processes—including patterns of migration, industrialization, and imperialism—contributed to ecological changes that enabled yellow fever–carrying Aedes aëgypti mosquitoes to thrive and transmit the disease in New Orleans, challenging presumptions that yellow fever was primarily transported to the Americas on slave ships. She then traces the origin and spread of medical and popular beliefs about yellow fever immunity, from the early nineteenth-century contention that natives of New Orleans were protected, to the gradual emphasis on race as a determinant of immunity, reflecting social tensions over the abolition of slavery around the world. As the nineteenth century unfolded, ideas of biological differences between the races calcified, even as public health infrastructure expanded, and race continued to play a central role in the diagnosis and prevention of the disease. State and federal governments began to create boards and organizations responsible for preventing new outbreaks and providing care during epidemics, though medical authorities ignored evidence of black victims of yellow fever. Willoughby argues that American imperialist ambitions also contributed to yellow fever eradication and the growth of the field of tropical medicine: U.S. commercial interests in the tropical zones that grew crops like sugar cane, bananas, and coffee engendered cooperation between medical professionals and American military forces in Latin America, which in turn enabled public health campaigns to research and eliminate yellow fever in New Orleans. A signal contribution to the field of disease ecology, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans delineates events that shaped the Crescent City’s epidemiological history, shedding light on the spread and eradication of yellow fever in the Atlantic World.
Download or read book The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever written by Edward H. Barton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever: Contained in the Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans We cannot but hope that a second edition of this valuable report will be published, sufficiently extensive to afford every physician and every Board of Health in our large cities an opportunity of procuring a copy. We do not pretend to decide whether the opinions delivered in it or the principles established by it are legitimately derived, in a professional point of view; but there seems to be to us a great deal of important information, collected with much labor from a great variety of sources, which ought in some way or other to be spread before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever at New Orleans La In 1853 Classic Reprint written by Erasmus Darwin Fenner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever, at New Orleans, La., In 1853 But, with deep regret, I must say, in vain have these important facts been laid before a heedless community - facts involving the progress and prosperity of our city, and our pecuniary interests in an eminent degree but above all, involving our own lives and the safety of those scarcely less dear to us than life itself. In vain have the most probable chief causes of this disease been pointed out, as well as the good results that have followed the removal of such causes in various parts of the world. In vain has this community been informed by many of its philanthropic physicians and through successive reports of its Grand Juries, that those causes are to be found in this city from one year's end to another, and perhaps to a greater extent than in any other spot upon the globe. In vain have they been referred to their Hospitals, their Orphan flsylums, and their crowded cemeteries for the indubitable evidences of sick ness and death. With stoic indifference they have viewed these appalling scenes and turned a deaf ear to the advice and entreaties' of their monitors. Engrossed with the exciting occupations and enjoyments of the winter, they cast not a thought upon the evils that may come upon them in summer. When shown by the reports from their cemeteries that the annual mortality of this city, in pro portion to population, more than doubles that of any city either in Europe or America, they either disregard the solemn truth or flatly deny it - saying there must be some mistake, and calling those who bring to light such unwelcome facts, enemies to the city and tra ducers of its fair fame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South written by John H. Ellis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878—a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 million. The full scale of the epidemic and the tentative, troubled southern response to it are for the first time fully examined by John Ellis in this new book. At the national level, southern congressional leaders fought to establish a strong federal health agency, but they were defeated by the young American Public Health Association, which defended states' rights. Local responses and results were mixed. In New Orleans, business and professional men, reacting to the denunciation of the city as the nation's pesthole, organized in 1879 to improve drainage, garbage disposal, and water supplies through voluntary subscription. Their achievements were of necessity modest. In Memphis—the city hardest hit by the epidemic—a new municipal government in 1879 helped form the first regional health organization and during the 1880s led the nation in sanitary improvements. In Atlanta, though it largely escaped the epidemic, the Constitution and some citizens called for health reform. Ironically their voices were drowned out by ritual invocation of local health mythology and by unabashed exploitation of the stigma of pestilence attached to New Orleans and Memphis. By 1890 Atlanta rivaled Charleston and Richmond for primacy in black mortality rates. That the public health movement met with only limited success Ellis attributes to the prevailing atmosphere of opportunistic greed, overwhelming debt, economic instability, and inordinate political corruption. But the effort to combat a terrifying disease not fully understood did eventually produce changes and the vastly improved health systems of today.
Download or read book Yellow Fever Prophylaxis in New Orleans 1905 written by Sir Rubert William Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yellow Fever Race and Ecology in Nineteenth Century New Orleans written by Urmi Engineer Willoughby and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city’s place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development. Willoughby argues that transnational processes—including patterns of migration, industrialization, and imperialism—contributed to ecological changes that enabled yellow fever–carrying Aedes aëgypti mosquitoes to thrive and transmit the disease in New Orleans, challenging presumptions that yellow fever was primarily transported to the Americas on slave ships. She then traces the origin and spread of medical and popular beliefs about yellow fever immunity, from the early nineteenth-century contention that natives of New Orleans were protected, to the gradual emphasis on race as a determinant of immunity, reflecting social tensions over the abolition of slavery around the world. As the nineteenth century unfolded, ideas of biological differences between the races calcified, even as public health infrastructure expanded, and race continued to play a central role in the diagnosis and prevention of the disease. State and federal governments began to create boards and organizations responsible for preventing new outbreaks and providing care during epidemics, though medical authorities ignored evidence of black victims of yellow fever. Willoughby argues that American imperialist ambitions also contributed to yellow fever eradication and the growth of the field of tropical medicine: U.S. commercial interests in the tropical zones that grew crops like sugar cane, bananas, and coffee engendered cooperation between medical professionals and American military forces in Latin America, which in turn enabled public health campaigns to research and eliminate yellow fever in New Orleans. A signal contribution to the field of disease ecology, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans delineates events that shaped the Crescent City’s epidemiological history, shedding light on the spread and eradication of yellow fever in the Atlantic World.
Download or read book Leprosy Racism And Public Health written by Zachary Gussow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on leprosy in a country with which this 'tropical' disease is rarely associated in the professional or public mind; the United States. An important scholarly contribution where Gussow argues that academic neglect and absence of comparative studies of lepraphobia have been fuelled by default the myth that aversion to leprosy is and has been universal.
Download or read book Necropolis written by Kathryn Olivarius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEAR Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History Winner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “A brilliant book...This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the scholarship on American slavery.” —Annette Gordon-Reed “A stunning account of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ profiteering in the yellow fever–ridden Crescent City...a world in which a deadly virus altered every aspect of a brutal social system, exacerbating savage inequalities of enslavement, race, and class.” —John Fabian Witt, author of American Contagions “Olivarius’s new perspectives on yellow fever, immunocapitalism, and the politics of acclimation...will influence a generation of scholars to come on the intersections of racism, slavery, and public health.” —The Lancet In antebellum New Orleans, at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms, epidemics of yellow fever killed as many as 150,000 people. With little understanding of the origins of the illness—and meager public health infrastructure—one’s only hope if infected was to survive, providing the lucky few with a mysterious form of immunity. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans’s strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, a form of “immunocapital,” as white survivors leveraged their immunity to pursue economic and political advancement while enslaved Blacks were relegated to the most grueling labor. The question of health—who has it, who doesn’t, and why—is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century Orleanians constructed a society that capitalized on mortal risk and benefited from the chaos that ensued.
Download or read book Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans on the Epidemic Yellow Fever of 1853 written by New Orleans (La.). Sanitary Commission and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clio Medica Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae Vol 12 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers --Japanese Medicine in Manchuria : The South Manchuria Medical College /John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers --Physiology, General Education and the Antivivisection Movement /Lloyd G. Stevenson --Leo Loeb's Role in Development of Tissue Culture /Lewis Phillip Rubin --Pflüger's Nerve Reflex Theory of Menstruation : The Product of Analogy, Teleology and Neurophysiology /Hans H. Simmer --Amy Lowell and the Death of John Keats /Saul Jarcho --Contributors to this Issue --Papers --Les Handicapés et la Révolution Française Aspects de Médecine Sociale /Dora B. Weiner --The Child Model (or the Model Child?) of the Late Nineteenth Century in Urban America /Deborah Dwork --Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928): His Final Effort /Claude E. Dolman --Vocal Exercise and Nineteenth-Century Hygiene in France /Gretchen Finney --Berichte von Wiederbelebungsmassnahmen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert /D. Dünschel --History of Cardiovascular Catheterization /T. Doby --The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1878 : A Note on the Affective History of Societies and Communities /John H. Ellis --News and Notes /Dora B. Weiner --Book Reviews --Les Hommes et la Peste en France et dans les Pays Européens et Méditerranéens. J.N. Biraben. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire 455 pp. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste 416 pp. Mouton, Paris - La Haye, 1976. Prix 195F. /J. Théodoridès --La Médecine Chinoise par les Plantes. Ming Wong. Paris, Tchou 1976, 284 pp. nombr. figs. /J. Théodoridès --Contributors to this Issue --Erratum --George Rosen (1910-1977) /Erwin H. Ackerknecht --Papers --Born in Urban America: 1830-1860 /Deborah Dwork --Five made it - One not The Rise of Medical Craftsmen to Academic Status during the 19th Century /Erwin H. Ackerknecht and Esther Fischer-Homberger --A Propos du Centenaire d'Emile Brumpt (1877-1951) /Jean Théodoridès --A. J. B. Parent-Duchâtelet: Hygienist of Paris, 1821-1836 /Ann Fowler La Berge --Contributors to this Issue.
Download or read book Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans On the Epidemic Yellow Fever of 1853 written by New Orleans (La ) Sanitary Commission and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a detailed account of the yellow fever epidemic that struck New Orleans in 1853 and the response by local authorities and charitable organizations. The Sanitary Commission was a group of physicians and public health advocates who aimed to improve the environmental conditions of the city and prevent the spread of diseases. The report includes statistical data, personal testimonies, and recommendations for future actions. This book is a valuable source for scholars of the history of public health, epidemiology, and social welfare. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
