Some Clinical Impressions of a Plague Epidemic

Clinical Impressions of a Second Plague Epidemic in the Same Town

The Impact of Geographical Factors on the Prevalence of Pervasive Diseases in Guilan, Qajar Era in Perspective of European Tourists

European tourists in their reports from Guilan in the Qajar era, also have addressed the issue of health and deadly diseases affecting lives of people, such as rice fever, malaria, cholera, and plague in addition to pointing out the numerous social tragedies. From these tourists’s point of view, the weather conditions, geographical location, livelihood and some living and social habits and beha...

A Historical Report of Plague Outbreak in Northwestern Iran, 1966

Plague is an endemic disease to the west of Iran and has frequently stricken this area over the last decades. In 1954, Pasteur Institute of Iran established a research station in the west of the country and since then has monitored the plague outbreaks as well as the disease status in rodents and carnivores by dispatching research teams to different villages and localities. We noticed that ther...

Richard Pearson Strong and the Manchurian epidemic of pneumonic plague, 1910-1911.

HE Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and famine afflicted the Central Provinces. The Manchurian plague claimed some fifty thousand lives in four months, and the famine took thousands more. Not all the hungry died, but no on...

Anglo-Yugoslav medical relations in peace and war.

Although the medical centres of Great Britain, owing to their distance from Yugoslavia,t have influenced Yugoslavian medicine less than those of neighbouring countries such as Italy, Austria, and Hungary, some traces of contact can be found as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But the first real co-operation dates from the end of the nineteenth century, when assistance began...