The 1904 epidemic of cholera in Persia

Some Aspects of Qājār Society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2804589
AutoresR M Burrell (autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas258-270
Fecha de publicación1988-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00114570
PMID11616737
OpenAlexW1967490931
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas4

Of all the diseases which afflicted mankind in the nineteenth century cholera has a good claim to the unenviable title of being the most dreaded. It was certainly the one which prompted the first sustained efforts to devise and implement international sanitary conventions. The reasons why cholera was so feared are many. Until the second decade of the century it was confined to the Indian subcontinent-where it had probably existed since ancient times-and medical knowledge of it elsewhere was practically nil. In 1817, however, maritime trade carried the infection to other lands and thus began the first period of diffusion which lasted for some six years. By the early years of the twentieth century a further five massive epidemics had occurred, almost every country in the world had been affected and the cumulative death toll was measured in millions. Persia, being so close to the original source of infection, suffered in every one of those epidemics and also from several other more limited and localized outbreaks

Ancient history · Cholera · Death toll · Economic history · Geography · Indian subcontinent · Outbreak · Period (music) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Toll · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Vibrio bacteria research studies · Virology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research