The Impact of Disease on American History
- 22 April 1954
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 250 (16) , 679-687
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195404222501605
Abstract
ALTHOUGH there are medical histories dealing with America as well as the rest of the world medical histories, for the most part, are drab accounts of scientific discoveries, dreary biographic sketches of obscure or eponymous physicians or descriptions of epidemics as they affected the course of medical knowledge. None of them deal with the over-all effect of disease on the history of this nation.A useful premise at this point is that before the white man invaded the North American continent it was a healthful place to live in. There is a good deal of evidence to support this claim. . . .Keywords
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