#small pox

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[charnel-grounds]

Linley Sambourne (1844-1910)

Triumph of de-Jenner-ation (The Bill for the encouragement of small pox was passed), 1898

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[inspofromancientworld]

Antonine Plague

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Between 165 and 180 CE, the Antonine plague, or the Plague of Galen, after the Greek physician who described it, was an pandemic that affected the Roman Empire, likely spread by sailors as well as soldiers returning from campaigns in the Near East after the siege of Seleucia, a city on the west bank of the Tigris River within modern-day Baghdad Governate, over the winter of 165-166 CE, and was resulted in the deaths of between 5 and 10 million people, around 10% of the empire, with the army hit the hardest, 'reduced almost to extinction'. Epidemics were quite common in the ancient world with the close quarters of early cities lending themselves to the spread of disease, the close quarters of animals and humans giving rise to new or zoonotic disease transfer from animals, and the lack of understanding of what caused illnesses and how they are spread. Pandemics require a close connection between large amounts of people to be connected across large swathes of land. The Antonine plague is the first known pandemic of the Roman Empire.

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At the time of the plague, about 20% of the population lived in cities, a large proportion at that time, with Rome having an estimated population of 1,000,000 people in it, and those cities were sustained by people moving in as the death rate exceeded the rate of surviving childhood, with more than half of children dying before reaching adulthood leading to the average life expectancy being mid-twenties. Sanitation conditions were poor, which led to the spread of diseases. And with the improvement of transportation needed to sustain a large empire, the roads and relatively safe sea passages allowed germs to travel much farther than they would have in a smaller empire or among independent city-states. Another indicator of overall health of a society is the height people reach, which is a reflection of nutrition and health, and the Romans were shorter than those who preceded and followed them. These issues affected all classes of people, with even co-emperor Marcus Aurelius, who was emperor from 161-180 with two co-emperors over that time, Lucius Verus (161-169) and Commodus (177-180), having only two of fourteen children reach adulthood.

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The plague was described by Galen when it first struck Rome in 166 and again when it flared up during the winter of 168-169. He described it as 'very long lasting' as well as describing the symptoms briefly, though he was more focused on what he tried as treatment of 'internal and external ulcerations'. He did note that the survivors would develop an exanthem, or widespread rash, was usually black, then became rough and scabby, but no ulceration, or sores. He said it was black 'because of a remnant of blood putrefied in a fever blister that was pustular'. He also indicated that if the patient's 'stool was very black, the patient died' due to 'the severity of the intestinal lesions'. Other symptoms he described included 'fever, vomiting, fetid breath, catarrh [inflammation of mucous membranes], cough, and ulceration of the larynx and trachea', which lead modern researchers to think the plague might have been smallpox, or possibly measles.

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Vaccines follow a familiar pattern: strange injuries, officials insisting they're “safe and effective,” and the medical system downplaying harm for the “greater good.”

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[swforester]

Here lies ye remains of Lt Gideon Mirick who died of ye smallpox Feb 28th, 1758, aged 30 years, 11 months and 26 days.

Oak Knoll Cemetery 3/10/25

[qbdatabase]

The City of Palaces by Michael Nava In a Mexico City jail, a principled young doctor wracked by guilt for a crime he committed as a medical student ten years earlier meets the spinster daughter of an aristocratic family, disfigured by smallpox. Through their eyes and the eyes of their young son, José, readers follow the collapse of the old order and its bloody aftermath.

[thoughtportal]

Lucy Ward speaks to Elinor Evans about the story of English Quaker doctor Thomas Dimsdale, who took up the risky challenge of inoculating Empress Catherine II against smallpox, as a powerful statement at a time when the disease was ravaging Russia and superstition held sway.

[misforgotten2]

Can you imagine it was a normal everyday thing that a parent had to be concerned about their baby getting fucking SMALL POX!

And people whined about occasionally wearing a mask.

Parents Magazine   October 1945