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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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American Academy of Arts and Sciences RecordsChartered in 1780 by the Massachusetts legislature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is the second oldest learned society in the United States. Among its incorporators were John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. Shortly after its inception, the Academy organized a library. Regular publications began with the first volume of its Memoirs in 1785. Early papers presented before the Academy reflected an interest in physical science and public health. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences records housed at the Countway Library consist of papers on smallpox, fevers, sanitation, and other subjects read to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by Manasseh Cutler, Samuel Latham Mitchell, and others. Additional documents include a register of deaths in Newton, Massachusetts, taken from 1763 to 1783, and observations on a similar register of vital statistics presented by Edward Wigglesworth to the Academy. Materials Digitized for the Contagion Collection
“An enquiry, whether the same subject not being liable to take the smallpox a second time, may not be owing to a change produced in the nervous system?” by Manasseh Cutler, Nov. 14, 1781. “Considerations on the methods by which the sickening and pestilential exhalations from dead animal and vegetable substances are overcome,” by Samuel L. Mitchell, June 5, 1800. Additional Contagion ResourcesConcepts of Contagion and Epidemics Full Collection CitationRecords of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775–1800. B MS c34. Boston 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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