One of the major reasons the Native Americans were affected by the European exploration was because the Europeans spread small pox and many other diseases to the Native Americans. Since the Natives have never been exposed to diseases they had no resistance and most of them died out. Also the Europeans threat was very direct to the natives. To the Natives, Europeans were becoming a threat deeper and deeper by seizing their lands, clearing forests, driving away many of there wild game (which tribes depended on food) and letting their livestock run loose to destroy the natives crops. The Native Americans started becoming less and less powerful towards the Europeans, there population was small to begin with and with the epidemics diseases and the land and food shortages, they were almost wiped out of there population.
Throughout the Civil War, medical knowledge was extremely basic. Many doctors didn’t understand infection, and those who did, did little or nothing to prevent it. Approximately two thirds of the soldiers died from infections as a result of unsound hygiene and sanitary conditions. Disease was extremely prominent in Civil War camps because of the disgusting conditions that the soldiers had to live in. Even though during the civil war, many medical advancements were being made, they were not being made quick enough to save approximately 400,000 soldiers who died from disease and infection.
Although they did not know it, the Europeans had brought over diseases from Europe. In the past Europe’s immense trade routes and domestic animals made them homes for disease. They suffered from the worst and therefore became immune to the worst. They carried these diseases to America and badly infected the people. American’s had little disease at this time because isolation did not allow for contact with the other people to contract their diseases and they did not have domestic animals.
As the reliable water sources shrank and they were forced to drink the contaminated water. This may have also spread diseases throughout the Colony. The results being more deaths, because of the water sources being contaminated by filth from the colonists. [Doc.B] Shows that there was a large time of drought from 1606-1612.This likely affected the growth of crops. The result was deaths most likely caused by lack of food.
Yet natives never had a word in their treatment nor anyway written record of the Columbian Exchange. The arrival of the Europeans had hurt the natives for their benefits and gave little in return for their great gain because of an exchange of horses and small pox for valuable foods to increase a population. The vast majority of Indian casualties occurred not as a result of hard labor or deliberate destruction but because of contagious diseases that the Europeans transmitted to the Indians (doc 6). The Europeans unknowingly had a secret weapon that would help them conquer the new world my reaching the natives population and killing much of the population. The arrival of the Europeans gave the natives smallpox, which weakened the natives and made it easier for the conquistadores to take over what was left.
Many immigrants do not pay taxes, and they may receive welfare or other forms of government assistance which is extremely unfair to tax payers. Another negative impact is exposure to health risks which coincides with health care. Immigrants are often uninsured or underinsured, and forty-three percent of noncitizens under 65 have no health insurance. While entering in the U.S immigrants may carry diseases that have possibilities of never getting treated. In Madeleine Peiner Cosman (2005) her journal states “by default we grant health passes to illegal aliens, yet illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago”.
Because of this surgery was very limited except in times of war. In 1867 a man called Joseph Lister ( later known as the father of antiseptic surgery) discovered a link between the lack of cleanliness in hospitals and the deaths after operations and devised a fine spray using carbolic acid which he used on and aroung the open wounds, this combined with the washing of hands greatly reduced the number of patients who contracted infections after surgery and led to a dramatic fall in fatalities. The evolution of healthcare throughout the years has been an ever changing process of social, political and economic history. Healthcare has evolved from a simple system of homecare remidies and physicians, most of them with little or no training, to the era of scientific medicine which we know today. In the later years of the nineteenth century, voluntary visiting associations started providing care in the general
Most of the Indigenous Australians died by introduced diseases such as small pox, measels and influenza where they had no resistance or immunity. The Europeans saw the Indigenous Australians as savages, they wanted to change them, make them like them. They were forbidden from speaking their language and the Europeans changed the way they looked by giving them clothes to wear to look sophisticated like they
Not long before the Pilgrims arrived the Wampanoag experienced many deaths as well due to alien diseases brought over by other Europeans. The entire Wampanoag tribes were extremely depleted and hurting. The leader of the Wampanoag tribe, Massasoit, knew that at
Running sores covered the body and then the tongue turned black. Death would then follow swiftly. Millions died from this sickness, which is referred to as the Black Death or the plague. At the time, no one completely knew what had caused the plague. Today we know that germs and bacteria caused the sickness and we understand how they can spread from one person to another, but back in the medieval times, the time of the plague, people did not know this.