Does anyone know what diseases were popular in the 1850's?¿?

Question

I've beeen seaching and can't find anything.....

also if you know what people thought abouth mythical creatures during that time, that'd be helpful too. Thanks much!

Answer 1

Typhoid, yellow fever (in mosquito laden areas), polio, measles, mumps, diphtheria, influenza...these were all favorites of the populace....and if you were at sea then beri beri and scurvy were greatly enjoyed. LOL, I died laughing at the way you phrased your question....hehehehehehe....still going....

Answer 2

Perhaps the point of what you are studying is that 1850 seems to be the magic cut-off date for when infectious diseases began to drop. This is because of the discovery that santitation was key in reducing disease.
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From http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/Text/5d.html:

Crowded, unwashed populations living amidst filth and pollution with fecally contaminated water and food supplies were seen to be more susceptible to cholera and typhoid than those living under opposite conditions. This observation, even though the nature of the contagion was unknown, stimulated the inception during the first half of the 19th century of the modern public health movement known as "The Great Sanitary Awakening," devoted to sanitary reform throughout the world. [103] [104] [105]

Finally, as a rough measure of social and medical progress over the past century and a half we see that the death rate in the nation is now half that in the mid 1800's and life expectancy is twice as long
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You may want to take a look at these sites:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w11427
http://www.assumption.edu/WHW/old/Asylum_for_the_sick

Answer 3

No diseases were popular in the 1850's. Some of the epidemics of the 1850's were Influenza, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Cholera. Most of these public health nightmares were due to lack of sanitary conditions.

Answer 4

Coitus interruptus (probable the main worry-unfastened one) Condoms, that have been made out of pig colons. Vaginal showers (i think of they have been already invented at that ingredient and had sperm killing fluid) Abstinence (do not probable believe that...) watching the womans cycle And nicely abortion...nevertheless this become an extremely risky technique and outlawed i assume that's approximately it wish that helped ~~ in simple terms remembered: some females curiously positioned sponges (which i believe have been in the past dipped in some sperm killing fluid...) of their vaginas. akin to a widespread diaphragma. I doubt nevertheless that those sponges have been very effectual.

Answer 5

Yellow fever, Muscular Dystrophy, cholera were some of the diseases.

Answer 6

I'm not sure if you could characterize any disease as "popular". Unless you were talking about AIDS in the homosexual community.

Answer 7

disease are not popular,at that time food poison,lot of babies die at birth,because doctor did not wash their hand,yellow fever was big in Central American

Answer 8

chicken pox, german measles, heart problems, gun shot lead posionings

Answer 9

influenza and smallpox