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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city.
Holliday, John.Date: 1796- Books
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The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by Sir John Elliot, M.D.
Elliot, John, 1747-1787.Date: 1795