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Author : Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Climate of Rome and the Roman Malaria written by Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230073132
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The Climate of Rome and the Roman Malaria written by Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... rendered its pestilential manifestation impossible, by suppressing one of the conditions essential to its development--that is, the immediate contact of the infected earth with the air. But if that contact be accidentally restored in any way, as, for example, by an excavation made in hot weather, and when the soil is damp, the three conditions necessary for the multiplication of the malarious ferment become once more re-established, and we have the unpleasant surprise of experiencing an outbreak of malaria in places which had previously been rendered salubrious. Notwithstanding this, however, those atmospheric sanitations, provided they be continually kept up, are amongst the most efficacious; and by their means the city of Rome will become free of malaria throughout all those parts which do not immediately adjoin the surrounding Campagna. The great benefits already realized are a good reason for entertaining this confidence, bearing in mind, moreover, that those benefits accrued independently of any hydraulic improvements made in the Agro; for in reality, until 1884 none had been made. The remarkable sanitation already produced in Rome between 1870 and 1884 is due to the gradual keeping down of the autochthonous malaria of the city, and to no other cause. It is not possible to form an opinion on the actual malarious production, in the different portions of the Agro, with the same accuracy as we can, in the various districts of Rome. We know that throughout the whole extent of the Agro, malaria prevails; but whether there be some exceptionally healthy spots, such as the Viminal was before 1870 in Rome, it is impossible to determine with any certainty. It is possible to draw up a malaria map of Rome, because in Rome, everywhere, we have, ..
Author : Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019243220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Climate of Rome and the Roman Malaria written by Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tommasi Crudeli
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331930207
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Climate of Rome and the Roman Malaria (Classic Reprint) written by Tommasi Crudeli and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Climate of Rome and the Roman Malaria IN the year 1885 Professor Corrado tommasi-crudeli delivered a course of lectures at the inauguration of the Institute of Hygiene, attached to the University of Rome. These were afterwards collected and published by him under the title of 11 Clima di Roma. The present, is a translation of that work, which has been revised and corrected up to date, by Professor tommasi-crudeli himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Sallares
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199248508
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Malaria and Rome written by Robert Sallares and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive study of malaria in ancient Italy since the research of the distinguished Italian malariologist Angelo Celli in the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the importance of disease patterns and history in understanding the demography of ancient populations. Robert Sallares argues that malaria became increasingly prevalent in Roman times in central Italy as a result of ecological change and alterations to the physical landscapesuch as deforestation. Making full use of contemporary sources and comparative material from other periods, he shows that malaria had a significant effect on mortality rates in certain regions of Roman Italy.Robert Sallares incorporates all the important advances made in many relevant fields since Celli's time. These include recent geomorphological research on the evolution of the coastal environments of Italy that were notorious for malaria in the past, biomolecular research on the evolution of malaria, ancient DNA as a new source of evidence for malaria in antiquity, the differentiation of mosquito species that permits understanding of the phenomenon of anophelism without malaria (where theclimate is optimal for malaria and Anopheles mosquitoes are present, but there is no malaria), and recent medical research on the interactions between malaria and other diseases.The argument develops with a careful interplay between the modern microbiology of the disease and the Greek and Latin literary texts. Both contemporary sources and comparative material from other periods are used to interpret the ancient sources. In addition to the medical and demographic effects on the Roman population, Malaria and Rome considers the social and economic effects of malaria, for example on settlement patterns and on agricultural systems. Robert Sallares also examinesthe varied human responses to and interpretations of malaria in antiquity, ranging from the attempts at rational understanding made by the Hippocratic authors and Galen to the demons described in the magical papyri.
Author : Corrado TOMMASI-CRUDELI
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Climate of Rome and Roman Malaria ... Translated ... by C. C. Dick written by Corrado TOMMASI-CRUDELI and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Reilly
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686556
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Roman Fever written by Benjamin Reilly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 1500 years, Rome was the inspiration of artists, the coronation stage of German emperors, the distant desire of pilgrims, and the seat of the Roman popes. Yet Rome also lies within the northern range of P. falciparum malaria, the deadliest strain of the disease, against which northern Europeans had no intrinsic or acquired defenses. As a result, Rome lured a countless number of unacclimated transalpine Europeans to their deaths in the period from 500 to 1850 AD. This book examines how Rome's allure to European visitors and its resident malaria species impacted the historical development of Europe. It covers the environmental and biological factors at play and focuses on two of the periods when malaria potentially had the greatest impact on the continent: the heyday of the medieval German Empire and its conflicts with the papacy (c. 800-1300) and the Protestant Reformation (c.1500). Through explorations into the history of religion, empire, disease, and culture, this book tells the story of how the veritable capital of the world became the graveyard of nations.
Author : Kyle Harper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888913
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Fate of Rome written by Kyle Harper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague. A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.
Author : G. Taussig
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The Roman Climate written by G. Taussig and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William North
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Roman Fever written by William North and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400889731
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Science of Roman History written by Walter Scheidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquity This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who explore novel types of evidence that enable us to reconstruct the realities of life in the Roman world. Contributors discuss climate change and its impact on Roman history, and then cover botanical and animal remains, which cast new light on agricultural and dietary practices. They exploit the rich record of human skeletal material--both bones and teeth—which forms a bio-archive that has preserved vital information about health, nutritional status, diet, disease, working conditions, and migration. Complementing this discussion is an in-depth analysis of trends in human body height, a marker of general well-being. This book also assesses the contribution of genetics to our understanding of the past, demonstrating how ancient DNA is used to track infectious diseases, migration, and the spread of livestock and crops, while the DNA of modern populations helps us reconstruct ancient migrations, especially colonization. Opening a path toward a genuine biohistory of Rome and the wider ancient world, The Science of Roman History offers an accessible introduction to the scientific methods being used in this exciting new area of research, as well as an up-to-date survey of recent findings and a tantalizing glimpse of what the future holds.
Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743437
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
Author : David Gerald Pickel
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Malarial Landscapes of Roman Central Italy written by David Gerald Pickel and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents a study of malaria's ancient epidemiology in Roman central Italy. While current evidence indicates that malaria was present in Italy during the Roman period, little work has been done regarding malaria's impact on and interaction with Romans and Roman society overall. This is largely due to the presumed inability of this evidence to specify where and to what degree the disease was present in antiquity. In this dissertation I address this evidentiary constraint by reconceptualizing the focus of research, considering both the context of the disease and the disease as context. To do this, I combine spatial epidemiological theories and methods with close analysis of paleo-environmental data, ancient texts, and material remains to learn how the environment, human practices, and artifacts bounded malaria's distribution, affected its prevalence, and ultimately exposed people in the past to this disease. In this way, I build a model of ancient malaria transmission risk, with major emphasis placed on the unfolding entanglement between malaria and Roman villa estates between 200 BCE and 500 CE. In Chapter One, all current evidence for malaria in the ancient Roman world is categorized according to the ability of each to support a malaria identification. Chapter Two outlines this dissertation's theoretical framework and method, central to which is the idea that landscapes of disease and disease exposures therein are the emergent outcome of the interdependent activity between the social world of humans and the material world of living and non-living things. In Chapter Three, GIS software is used to create suitability maps of relative malaria transmission risk in Roman central Italy. These maps reflect temperature's effect on the development and activity of mosquitoes and malaria parasites. In Chapter Four, the risk maps created in the previous chapter are juxtaposed with a geodatabase of 501 central Italian villa estates datable between 200 BCE and 500 CE. This juxtaposition discloses a tension that has not been satisfactorily considered in studies of Roman central Italy: growth and activity despite malaria's concurrent presence and naturally high risk of transmission. This tension is reconciled in the final two chapters. Chapter Five explores the potential for villa estate agricultural practices to effectively control malaria transmission. Chapter Six explores how the artifacts of those practices impacted their effectiveness in terms of malaria control, as well as the ways in which these artifacts themselves promoted malaria exposure as they fell into disrepair and dilapidated. This dissertation reveals that the Romans, although unaware of malaria's etiology, very likely incidentally reduced the risk of its transmission by embracing intensive farming practices, attentive local reclamation, and the employment of artifacts that curtailed substantive contact between susceptible human hosts and infected mosquito vectors. At the same time, this dissertation indicates that malaria's entrenchment within Italy, lasting until its elimination in the middle 20th century, was in part a consequence of the breakdown of those very same artifacts and practices that, for a time, curtailed its transmission.
Author : Karen M. Masterson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698140133
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Malaria Project written by Karen M. Masterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German model, then grew it tenfold. Quickly becoming the biggest and most important medical initiative of the war, the project tasked dozens of the country’s top research scientists and university labs to find a treatment to remedy half a million U.S. troops incapacitated by malaria. Spearheading the new U.S. effort was Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, the son of a poor Indiana farmer whose persistent drive and curiosity led him to become one of the most innovative thinkers in solving the malaria problem. He recruited private corporations, such as today's Squibb and Eli Lilly, and the nation’s best chemists out of Harvard and Johns Hopkins to make novel compounds that skilled technicians tested on birds. Giants in the field of clinical research, including the future NIH director James Shannon, then tested the drugs on mental health patients and convicted criminals—including infamous murderer Nathan Leopold. By 1943, a dozen strains of malaria brought home in the veins of sick soldiers were injected into these human guinea pigs for drug studies. After hundreds of trials and many deaths, they found their “magic bullet,” but not in a U.S. laboratory. America 's best weapon against malaria, still used today, was captured in battle from the Nazis. Called chloroquine, it went on to save more lives than any other drug in history. Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.
Author : William R. Shea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195165985
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Galileo in Rome written by William R. Shea and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading authorities on Galileo offer a brilliant revisionist look at the career of the great Italian scientist.
Author : Ethan E. Cochrane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199925070
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Ethan E. Cochrane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Richard Wrigley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300190212
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Roman Fever written by Richard Wrigley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisits responses to Rome in terms of ideas about the role of climate and the environment on health, which created a tension between enthusiasm and inspiration on one hand and debilitation and mortality on the other.
