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Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century The Great Plague of London, 1665 The Boston Smallpox Epidemic, 1721 “Pestilence” and the Printed Books of the Late 15th Century Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918–1919 Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914 Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800–1922 The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
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Mary Augusta Carr Cumings DiariesBorn in 1837 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Mary Augusta Carr Cumings lived principally in Boston, Massachusetts. She kept a brief diary every year from 1866 to 1880 in which she noted her children’s growth, illnesses, music lessons, and first days of school. She also recorded callers and described travels in New England and New York. She kept the diaries in books called The Lady’s Almanac, which contained, besides space for personal entries, printed poems and essays on female etiquette. In 1873 and 1876 (see below), she gave accounts of the medical care for her children’s bouts with scarlet fever. She described their symptoms, medications, and the care given them. Cumings died in 1904.
Materials Digitized for the Contagion CollectionDiary, 1873. MC 350, 8v. Diary, 1876. MC 350, 11v. Additional Contagion ResourcesGeneral Materials: Domestic Medicine Full Collection CitationCumings, Mary Augusta Carr, 1837–1904. Diaries, 1866–1880. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Electronic Finding AidCumings, Mary Augusta Carr, 1837-1904. Diaries, 1866–1880: A Finding Aid | |||||||||||||||||||||
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