In the 19th century, diseases that are relatively uncommon today were major causes of death in the United States. Infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and tuberculosis, often referred ...

During the 19th century, the way that people were living and working was changing dramatically. These changes affected the risk of infectious diseases and other conditions.

Every few years, we read the headlines about a new, or resurgent, disease that threatens global health. Fears of transfer erupt and hysteria sets in, at least in the initial months. If someone coughs ...

Leeches were used to treat a variety of diseases and conditions, such as fever, inflammation, infection, headache, epilepsy, ... But why were leeches so widely used and trusted in the 19th century?

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

But for many 19th-century doctors and patients, that was how they knew the treatment was working. At the time, many doctors still believed in the humoral theory of disease, dating back to ...

Simon Schama’s history of 18th and 19th century disease outbreaks speaks powerfully to the present Published: September 3, 2023 4:02pm EDT. Ella Stewart-Peters, Flinders University. Author ...

The Catholic Church asked a team of scientists and the Quai Branly museum in Paris to examine the heart of Pauline Jaricot — a 19th-century missionary worker from Lyon, France, who died in 1862 ...