Cholera
What was the Cholera spread by?
disease from water companies that supplied water that was used for sewage and drinking.
What caused the bubonic plague?
Rats and fleas
What were the Bills of Mortality?
recordings of deaths and the cause.
What did the people believe caused Cholera?
infected air: Miasma
Who wore the plague mask?
plague doctors!
The " miasmatists" insisted that it was the smell from the neighborhoods and the river that caused the disease. What did John Snow think Cholera came from?
The water systems
What caused Yellow Fever?
mosquitoes
An example of a symptom of the plague.
( symptoms of ANY plague. I tried to type all of the main ones.)
Buboe, purple swelling, diarrhea,large red rings, aching muscles, throbbing head, fever, and chills.
What was the Humoral theory? how did it work?
Your health depended on the balance of fluids in your body. To stay " healthy" and in "balance" a doctor would bleed patients by cutting them with a knife.
What was baby Lewis's death recorded as in the Bills of Mortality?
exhaustion, after an attack of diarrhea four days previous.
What caused Cholera?
bacteria in water
What happened to a family that had an infected plague family member?
The family was locked in their house, boards nailed over the doors and windows, and a red cross was painted with the words, " God have mercy"
How did the people think yellow fever was spread?
by coming in contact with infected clothing and bedding.
How did Cholera spread?
(hint: cesspool and baby Lewis )
The cesspools walls had collapsed and the sewage, including baby Lewis's diarrhea had stacked into the ground, quickly leading to the pump. This set of the Cholera epidemic.
Yellow fever: the doctors thought yellow fever was spread by infected bedding, so what did they do to test this theory?
they designed experiments that would expose people to clothing that had been worn by yellow fever patients.
What was Ms. Warren diagnosed with, after hiring a new cook?
Typhoid fever
Who was the first known victim of cholera?
( it's a baby!)
baby Lewis
Example of a remedy for Cholera that would have been in the newspaper.
laudanum, calomel, and camphor.