Smallpox was one of the great killers during the eighteenth century. This essay studies the impact of the disease in the mortality decline and provides an demographie structure of smallpox mortality. However, for a better understanding of epidemie diseases we must also consider cultural and social aspects and answer the question how the causes of smallpox were explained and understood by the public. Smallpox did not only concern mortality, it will be concluded that also nuptiality and marriage stratégies were affected. The appearance of the disease changed when vaccination was introduced in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The important factors for the implementation of this preventive measure will be analyzed and in a concluding di...
This study uses the large, but neglected, body of Indian historical demographic and health data to s...
Smallpox is a disease that followed humanity for thousands of years up until 30 years ago. It was po...
For centuries smallpox used to be one of the most fatal infectious human diseases.Progress in medici...
Smallpox was one of the great killers during the eighteenth century. This essay studies the impact o...
This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive...
Through a fearful dread of the disease, preventive measures have arisen. The Chinese, the Brahmins ...
This study examines the fight against smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sm...
This paper looks at the demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th cent...
The impact of smallpox and vaccination in Northern Germany in the 18th and 19th centuriesIn Germany,...
This study examines the fight against smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sm...
Durante el siglo XVIII, la viruela alcanzó su máxima expresión como enfermedad devastadora, y se con...
The article investigates some of the ideas held by the non-specialist general public as to the cause...
The purpose of this study is to examine the medical, religious, and social reactions to smallpox ino...
AbstractMajor problems of the past were various epidemics which decimated the population and often c...
Smallpox was probably the single most lethal disease in eighteenth-century Britain but was reduced t...
This study uses the large, but neglected, body of Indian historical demographic and health data to s...
Smallpox is a disease that followed humanity for thousands of years up until 30 years ago. It was po...
For centuries smallpox used to be one of the most fatal infectious human diseases.Progress in medici...
Smallpox was one of the great killers during the eighteenth century. This essay studies the impact o...
This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive...
Through a fearful dread of the disease, preventive measures have arisen. The Chinese, the Brahmins ...
This study examines the fight against smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sm...
This paper looks at the demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th cent...
The impact of smallpox and vaccination in Northern Germany in the 18th and 19th centuriesIn Germany,...
This study examines the fight against smallpox in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sm...
Durante el siglo XVIII, la viruela alcanzó su máxima expresión como enfermedad devastadora, y se con...
The article investigates some of the ideas held by the non-specialist general public as to the cause...
The purpose of this study is to examine the medical, religious, and social reactions to smallpox ino...
AbstractMajor problems of the past were various epidemics which decimated the population and often c...
Smallpox was probably the single most lethal disease in eighteenth-century Britain but was reduced t...
This study uses the large, but neglected, body of Indian historical demographic and health data to s...
Smallpox is a disease that followed humanity for thousands of years up until 30 years ago. It was po...
For centuries smallpox used to be one of the most fatal infectious human diseases.Progress in medici...