2.5: The 1832 Cholera Pandemic
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2.5: The 1832 Cholera Pandemic
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Cholera strikes New Orleans. Ten percent of the city is killed. Reverend Theodore Clapp performs a minister’s duty amidst the horror. We learn about bizarre treatments. Germ theory is not yet a thing.
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Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, during athirty-five years' residence in New Orleans by Theodore Clapp
The Cholera Years by Charles E. Rosenberg
“Nineteenth Century Public Health in New York and NewOrleans: A Comparison” by John Duffy
“Cargo, ‘Infection,’ and the Logic of Quarantine in theNineteenth Century” by Davis S. Barnes
“Asiatic Cholera in Louisiana, 1832-1873” by Leland A.Langridge
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues editedby Joseph P. Byrne
“Outline of the History of Malignant or Asiatic Cholera inNew Orleans, La.” by Joseph Jones
“How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in19th-Century New Orleans” by Karin Wulf
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