Symptoms of Cholera: thirst, sunken features, blueness in the extremities, and rice watered stools. What is generally considered the first cholera...
In April of 1881, the Taylor family lived at 9 Slater Street in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. John David Taylor was 24 years...
A Journal of the Plague Year, being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private,...
Some believe that the Spanish Influenza of 1918 had its beginnings in the Far East, perhaps China, while others have...
Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products...
Yellow fever, or yellow jack, or even yellow plague is a virus spread by infected mosquitoes. It’s first symptoms are...
One of our ancestor’s greatest fears was the highly contagious smallpox, a disease that has thankfully been considered to be...