Science and Medicine

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic threat and spread worldwide in six pandemics in the nineteenth century.

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• ▸Bridgewater Treatises
• ▸Chelyabinsk meteor
• ▸Cat

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