Images of epidemics in the contemporary press and scientific literature reveal the state of the art in science at the time and the responses of the authorities to control their spread. Portugal underwent health crises in 1854-56, 1899, and 1918, particularly in Oporto, where cholera morbus, bubonic plague, exanthematic typhus, Spanish flu, and smallpox killed large proportions of the population. We compare these epidemics in Portugal with those that affected Chile, caused by cholera in 1886-88, by the plague in Valparaiso and Iquiquein 1903, and by influenza in 1918, examining similarities in scientific knowledge and in the sanitary measures enforced. The results confirm the circulation of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and the high l...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
This research is part of a larger project focused on producing a History of the Popularization of Sc...
The aim of our work is to analyse the impact of cholera outbreaks that took place in Alto Minho, a r...
En tiempos de crisis sanitarias como las que ocurrieron en Portugal en 1854-56, 1899 y 1918, especi...
Dissertação de mestrado em HistóriaPortugal, em meados do século XIX e início do XX, assim como outr...
The pneumonic influenza pandemic was, on a world scale, the deadliest of the entire 20th century. Be...
© VesaliusA bubonic plague epidemic broke out in the Portuguese city of Oporto in June 1899. Six mon...
A epidemia de gripe pneumónica ocorreu em Portugal num momento em que o país que enfrentava enormes ...
WOS:000343986600016 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science)Em períodos de crise sanitária grave como os que oc...
Una forma de profundizar en el conocimiento de la sanidad española es el estudio de las publicacione...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
En septiembre de 1833, desde Badajoz se seguía el curso de la epidemia de cólera que asolaba Europa,...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
[Excerpt] In the 19th century in result of the inherent advances of the industrializing process, the...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
This research is part of a larger project focused on producing a History of the Popularization of Sc...
The aim of our work is to analyse the impact of cholera outbreaks that took place in Alto Minho, a r...
En tiempos de crisis sanitarias como las que ocurrieron en Portugal en 1854-56, 1899 y 1918, especi...
Dissertação de mestrado em HistóriaPortugal, em meados do século XIX e início do XX, assim como outr...
The pneumonic influenza pandemic was, on a world scale, the deadliest of the entire 20th century. Be...
© VesaliusA bubonic plague epidemic broke out in the Portuguese city of Oporto in June 1899. Six mon...
A epidemia de gripe pneumónica ocorreu em Portugal num momento em que o país que enfrentava enormes ...
WOS:000343986600016 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science)Em períodos de crise sanitária grave como os que oc...
Una forma de profundizar en el conocimiento de la sanidad española es el estudio de las publicacione...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
En septiembre de 1833, desde Badajoz se seguía el curso de la epidemia de cólera que asolaba Europa,...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
[Excerpt] In the 19th century in result of the inherent advances of the industrializing process, the...
The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between ...
This research is part of a larger project focused on producing a History of the Popularization of Sc...
The aim of our work is to analyse the impact of cholera outbreaks that took place in Alto Minho, a r...