History of Epidemiological Aspects of Yellow Fever

The Fontana history of chemistry

policy; tension between national and local interests; the importance of communications; and the financial impact of the epidemic are prominent themes in all. Each of these books does, however, make a distinct contribution to our understanding of yellow fever and its impact on the late nineteenth-century South. Thus Humphreys places the epidemic within the broad context of local and national pub...

Yellow Fever Vaccination: An Issue for Non-endemic Tropical Countries

Yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro and the Pasteur Institute Mission (1901-1905): the transfer of science to the periphery.

Science, a purely European enterprise, began to be exported to peripheral countries in the nineteenth century. The rapid expansion of bacteriology is a striking example of this. But at the same time, the transformation of bacteriology into a well-established and codified scientific discipline hampered the diffusion of bacteriological knowledge, because the laboratory practice that developed in ...

The perfect food and the filth disease: milk-borne typhoid and epidemiological practice in late Victorian Britain.

This article explores the initial set of epidemiological investigations in Victorian Britain that linked typhoid fever to milk from dairy cattle. Because Victorian epidemiologists first recognized the milk-borne route in outbreaks of typhoid fever, these investigations served as a model for later studies of milk-borne scarlet fever, diphtheria, and perhaps tuberculosis. By focusing on epidemiol...

The Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of Nasal Polyps that Require Surgery

Introduction: The objective of this retrospective cross-sectional study was to obtain epidemiological data from the charts of 297 patients with nasal polyposis who were operated on in a referral hospital in Mashhad and to determine the frequency of the presenting symptoms of nasal polyps.  Materials and Methods: The variables recorded included age, gender, the presence of asthma or allergic...