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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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Lloyd E. Hawes Autographed LettersThe full collection at the Countway Library consists of autographed letters, principally from eminent 19th-century scientists, which were collected by Lloyd E. Hawes, MD. The majority of the correspondence at the Countway Library concerns Florence Nightingale. With materials dating from 1856 to 1897, the subjects mainly concern the health of Nightingale’s brother-in-law and conditions during the Crimean War. Among other individuals represented in the collection are: Antoine César Becquerel, Edmond Becquerel, Sir William Crookes, Marie and Pierre Curie, Michael Faraday, William Thomson Kelvin, Louis Pasteur, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, John Tyndall, Charles Wheatstone, and Helen Brooke Taussig. In a letter (written in French), noted below, from Louis Pasteur to Louis Germont, Pasteur advises his assistant on whether or not rabbits used in experiments had died of cholera, on experiments treating crops with cholera microbes, and on the safe bottling and handling of the virus.
Materials Digitized for the Contagion CollectionLetter from Louis Pasteur to Louis Germont, Jan. 7, 1889. H MS c1. Additional Contagion ResourcesCholera Epidemics in the 19th Century
Full Collection CitationLloyd E. Hawes collection of autographed letters, 1791–1967 (inclusive). H MS c1. Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Mass. Electronic Finding AidNo extended electronic finding aid is available. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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