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“Pestilence” and the Printed Books of the Late 15th Century

Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918–1919

Syphilis, 1494–1923

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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Samuel Hahnemann Letter

[Christian Friedrich] Samuel Hahnemann (MD 1779, University of Erlangen) was born in 1755 in Meissen, Saxony. He is considered the founder of homeopathy—the treatment of a disease with small doses of a remedy that, in healthy persons, produce symptoms similar to those of the disease.

This letter, written in German by Dr. Hahnemann, discusses the homeopathic treatment of cholera by spirits of camphor and the prevention of it by watered copper. The letter includes neither the name nor the address of the addressee.