What impact did Plague have on England during the period 1348-1500? Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as ‘the Black Death’, was responsible for the death of up to 200 million people globally, including at the very least “over one-third of the population” of England. Clearly such a major historic event had many widespread impacts. These range of impacts range from impacts on popular culture and art, including the eerie and spectacle late-medieval fascination with death in images such as the Danse Macabre¸ to widespread persecution of minorities, such as the Jews, blamed for transmitting the disease. However this essay will focus on what it believes to be the greatest impacts the Plague had on England – the impact on demographics, the impact on social mobility, and the impact on religion.
In the year of 1918 the spread of the flu started by Germans who slipped into Boston Harbor on U-boats and then sneaked ashore, carrying vials of plague germs with them. Once the sickness began to spread, people of all ages were being affected. The disease had killed more people in a few months time than any other illness. Doctors looked into the lungs of the sick people and saw they were filled with fluid, and a “bloody froth” exuded from them. The sickness usually starts off with a dull headache, and your eyes start to burn.
She is known for decreasing mortality rates in hospitals during the Crimean War (George, 2011). She documentated her observations and data formulating her environmental theory by adjusting the environment she was able to decrease mortality. These concepts of providing fresh air, sanitation, light and clean water continue to remain important today. In additions some of her lesser known work included challenges to prejudices against women and focuses on unifying science and religion in a meaningful way. Hildegard Peplau published the first nursing theory in 1952 and was recognized internationally as a nurse leader.
(2) As a result of the Commission's efforts, the disease death rate of the Union Army was reduced and millions of dollars were raised in support of the Northern war effort. The US Sanitary Commission was formed by civilians who wanted to support the Union soldiers and prevent the numbers of deaths by disease seen in previous wars. During the recent Crimean War, 1853-1856, disease caused four out of five British soldiers to die. In an effort to prevent more deaths, the British Sanitary Commission was established. The BSC appointed a nurse named Florence Nightingale to oversee the conditions of the hospitals in the Crimea.
Nurses and health care providers implement aspects from a few different canons into the process of aiding in infection control and prevention of cholera in Haiti. Cholera is an extremely deadly disease, as of 2010 it affects 3-5 million individuals and causes about 100,000-130,000 deaths a year. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae which results in a diarrhea illness (Kraft, 2010). “This bacterium can enter a human’s internal environment through different pathways, with consuming dirty water and food being the most prevalent reason for acquiring this disease” (Kraft, 2010). In 2010, 303 people passed away due to the cholera outbreak in Haiti, and over 4,700 individuals were treated for this illness (Cholera Prevention Efforts, 2010).
Barton was a union war nurse who was often found on the battlefield nursing the injured. In 1869 Barton was introduced to the Red Cross and the idea of providing relief care ("National Women's History Museum,” 2012). Inspired Barton returned to the United States and introduced these theories to the American people, thus creating the first American Red Cross ("National Women's History Museum,” 2012). Nurses such as Nightingale and Barton are just two of many nurses who have created what is referred to today as nursing science. The creation of the science of nursing has opened the door for many
Alexandria Behr Medicine in London during the Middle Ages In the medieval world, death and disease were a part of daily life for everyone. Society was ravaged by successive outbreaks of the plague that later came to be known as the “Black Death.” It is estimated that at least a third of the population of London died of this horrific disease by the end of the fourteenth century. In modern society, when one feels ill, one goes to the doctor and is often issued prescriptions to aid in one's recovery. In the Middle Ages, however, the solutions to illness were much less exact. Due to limited, illnesses could be treated in a variety of ways depending on one’s personal beliefs.
Partially I agree that it was largely a result of the work of Florence Nightingale that medical care for British soldiers improved during the war. Her reforms of care which she bought to Scutarri with a team of trained nurses improved medical care greatly, for example within a few hours of being allowed to work the hospital was scrubbed, supplies started coming in from Sidney Herbert, beds were raised and the hospital became more sanitary and Florence used the funding from the Times newspaper to buy food. At night Nightingale walked the wards with a Turkish lantern caring for the wounded earning her famous name ‘The lady with the lamp’. Within months the death rate had decreased catastrophically. However, there were other nurses who updated medical care of British soldiers and War always meant that medicine is forced to be improved by all of the medical units.
But which was more significant? In this essay I will explain the two events and give my opinion on which event was more significant. The first of the two events was the Black Death. The Black Death was a terrible plague that happened in the 1300s. The disease spread from nation to nation, killing millions of people and seriously affecting their lives especially Britain.
The Columbian Exchange The term Columbian Exchange refers to the transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the New and Old Worlds. Old World diseases that entered the Americas with the European immigrants and African slaves devastated indigenous populations. These dramatic population changes weakened native peoples’ capacity for resistance and facilitated the transfer of plants, animals, and related technologies. I. Demographic Changes o Because of their long isolation from other continents, the peoples of the New World lacked immunity to diseases introduced from the Old World. As a result, death rates among Amerindian peoples during the epidemics of the early colonial period were very high.