Epidemic Disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813 : An Administrative, Social, and Medical Study /
Five deadly epidemics, chiefly typhus and smallpox, struck Mexico City in the years between 1761 and 1813, claiming a minimum of fifty thousand lives. Mexico City was at that time the major metropolis of the New World and the capital of New Spain-by far the richest and most sophisticated city in tha...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- CONTENTS
- PART I: THE BACKGROUND
- 1. A Menacing Natural Environment
- 2. Public-Health Administration
- PART II: THE FIVE EPIDEMICS
- 3. Typhus and Smallpox: Partners in Death (1761-1762)
- 4. Inoculation: Rejected Lifesaver (1779-1780)
- 5. Sickness in a Time of Famine (1784-1787)
- 6. Smallpox: Word of Terror (1797-1798)
- 7. The Year of Mysterious Fevers (1813)
- PART III: THE CYCLE OF SICKNESS
- 8. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index