Get Well Soon

by Jennifer Wright

  23.  MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas, p. 69.

  24.  Heather Whipps, “How Smallpox Changed the World,” livescience, June 23, 2008, http://www.livescience.com/7509-smallpox-changed-world.html.

  25.  Jared Diamond, “Episode One: Out of Eden—Transcript,” Guns, Germs and Steel, http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/transcript1.html.

  26.  C. P. Gross and K. A. Sepkowitz, “The Myth of the Medical Breakthrough: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Jenner Reconsidered,” International Journal of Infectious Diseases, July 1998, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13454451_Gross_CP_Sepkowitz_KAThe_myth_of_the_medical_breakthrough_smallpox_vaccination_and_Jenner_reconsidered_Int_J_Infect_Dis_354-60.

  27.  Richard Gordon, The Alarming History of Medicine (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1993), p. 101.

  28.  Cook, Born to Die, p. 67.

  29.  David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg, Social Histories of Disability and Deformity: Bodies, Images and Experiences (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006), p. 52.

  30.  John Bell, Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, Vol. 17 (1780), Google digital from the library of Harvard University, https://archive.org/details/bellsbritishthe19bellgoog, p. 33.

  31.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey [Letter],” annotated by Lynda Payne, Children and Youth in History, Item #157, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/157.

  32.  Ibid.

  33.  William Osler, “Man’s Redemption of Man,” American Magazine, April 1911 to November 2010, digitized by Google, https://books.google.com/books?id=I-EvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=Here+I+would+like+to+say+a+word+or+two+upon+one+of+the+most+terrible+of+all+acute+infections,+the+one+of+which+we+first+learned+the+control+through+the+work+of+Jenner.+A+great+deal+of+literature+has+been+distributed&source=bl&ots=ijHGbb6zsT&sig=FbS0JbRnrwolCKqaOtdRLKxSYeg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoqqHooavMAhWHtYMKHU6yB3UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Here%20I%20would%20like%20to%20say%20a%20word%20or%20two%20upon%20one%20of%20the%20most%20terrible%20of%20all%20acute%20infections%2C%20the%20one%20of%20which%20we%20first%20learned%20the%20control%20through%20the%20work%20of%20Jenner.%20A%20great%20deal%20of%20literature%20has%20been%20distributed&f=false.

  34.  Brian Deer, “MMR Doctor Given Legal Aid Thousands,” Sunday Times, December 31, 2006, http://briandeer.com/mmr/st-dec-2006.htm.

  35.  Brian Deer, “Exposed: Andrew Wakefield and the MMR-Autism Fraud,” briandeer.com, http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm.

  36.  Sarah Boseley, “Lancet Retracts ‘Utterly False’ MMR Paper,” Guardian, February 2, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper.

  37.  “Measles,” Media Center—Fact Sheet, World Health Organization, March 2016, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/.

  Syphilis

    1.  Monica-Maria Stapelberg, Through the Darkness: Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine (UK: Crux, 2016), p. 74.

    2.  Abraham Hertz and Emanuel Lincoln, The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon (New York: Viking Press, 1938), p. 259.

    3.  Philip Weiss, “Beethoven’s Hair Tells All!,” New York Times Magazine, November 29, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/beethoven-s-hair-tells-all.html?pagewanted=all.

    4.  “Diseases and Conditions: Syphilis,” Mayo Clinic, January 2, 2014, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/syphilis/basics/symptoms/con-20021862.

    5.  Deborah Hayden, Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis (New York: Basic Books, 2003), p. 179.

    6.  C. G. Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934–1939, 2 vols., edited by James L. Jarrett (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), e-book, location 609.

    7.  Hayden, Pox, p. 177.

    8.  Walter Stewart, Nietzsche: My Sister and I: A Critical Study (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2007), p. 91.

    9.  Hayden, Pox, p. 177.

  10.  Ibid., p. 178.

  11.  Ibid., p. 151.

  12.  Upton Sinclair, Damaged Goods (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1913), p. 67.

  13.  Vickram Chahal, “The Evolution of Nasal Reconstruction: The Origins of Plastic Surgery,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual History of Medicine Days, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 23–24, 2001, http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/Others/HOM/Dayspapers2001.pdf.

  14.  Stapelberg, Through the Darkness, p. 178.

  15.  William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (Washington: National Geographic Society, 2010), p. 96.

  16.  Ibid.

  17.  John Frith, “Syphilis—Its Early History and Treatment until Penicillin and the Debate on Its Origins,” Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, Nov. 2012, http://jmvh.org/article/syphilis-its-early-history-and-treatment-until-penicillin-and-the-debate-on-its-origins/.

  18.  Lois N. Magner, A History of Medicine (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992), p. 191.

  19.  Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, and Andrew Wear, The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 308.

  20.  Kayla Jo Blackmon, “Public Power, Private Matters: The American Social Hygiene Association and the Policing of Sexual Health in the Progressive Era,” thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, May 2014, p. 30, http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06262014-081201/unrestricted/publicpowerprivatemattersblackmanthesisupload.pdf.

  21.  Angela Serratore, “Lady Colin: The Victorian Not-Quite-Divorcee Who Scandalized London,” Jezebel.com, November 11, 2014, http://jezebel.com/lady-colin-the-victorian-not-quite-divorcee-who-scanda-1650034397.

  22.  Anne Jordan, Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857–1911) (Leicester: Matador, 2010), p. 92.

  23.  Serratore, “Lady Colin.”

  24.  Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, April 1818 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2009), p. 554. https://books.google.com/books?id=res7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=No+Nose+club+edinburgh+magazine&source=bl&ots=W4wo-3O32h&sig=uIMQaVaBbfUR2jhEGvRsl_GWZZ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijzYSmx57MAhVG3mMKHRQ9AkEQ6AEIMjAD#v=onepage&q=No%20Nose%20club%20edinburgh%20magazine&f=false.

  25.  Ibid., p. 555.

  26.  Ibid.

  Tuberculosis

    1.  “What Is Tuberculosis?” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, March 6, 2009, http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/understanding/whatistb/Pages/default.aspx.

    2.  Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children, from the Told to the Children series, edited by Louey Chisholm (New York: Dutton, 1904), http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/childrn/cbjackhp.html, p. 84.

    3.  Edgar Allan Poe, Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by G. R. Thompson (New York: Harper Collins, 1970), p. 95.

    4.  Victor Hugo, The Works of Victor Hugo, One Volume Edition (New York: Collier, 1928), p. 270.

    5.  Helen Bynum, Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 93.

    6.  René Dubos and Jean Dubos, The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), p. 22.

    7.  John Cordy Jeaffreson, The Real Lord Byron: New Views of the Poet’s Life, Vol. 2 (1883; reprint, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, Hard press, 2012), p. 259.

    8.  Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 9.

    9.  James Clark, Medical Notes on Climate, Diseases, Hospitals, and Medical Schools, in France, Italy and Switzerland (1820; reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 94.

  10.  Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 389.

  11.  Daniel H. Whitney, The F
amily Physician, and Guide to Health, Together with the History, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of the Asiatic Cholera, a Glossary Explaining the Most Difficult Words That Occur in Medical Science, and a Copious Index, to Which Is Added an Appendix (1833), U.S. National Library of Medicine site, https://archive.org/details/2577008R.nlm.nih.gov, p. 62.

  12.  Clark Lawlor, Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 45.

  13.  John Keats, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 2, edited by Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), p. 364.

  14.  Lawlor, Consumption and Literature, p. 17.

  15.  Ibid.

  16.  Whitney, The Family Physician, p. 60.

  17.  Lawlor, Consumption and Literature, p. 157.

  18.  Ibid., p. 50.

  19.  John Frith, “History of Tuberculosis: Part 1—Phthisis, Consumption and the White Plague,” Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, http://jmvh.org/article/history-of-tuberculosis-part-1-phthisis-consumption-and-the-white-plague/.

  20.  Lawlor, Consumption and Literature, p. 21.

  21.  Ibid., p. 50.

  22.  Ibid., p. 153.

  23.  Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 52.

  24.  Ibid., p. 9.

  25.  Bynum, Spitting Blood, p. 112.

  26.  Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 7.

  27.  Bynum, Spitting Blood, p. 111.

  28.  Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 17.

  29.  Ibid., p. 18.

  30.  Ibid., p. 24.

  31.  Lawlor, Consumption and Literature, p. 43.

  32.  Katherine Byrne, Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 100.

  33.  Lucinda Hawksley, Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (New York: Walker, 2004), p. 985.

  34.  Byrne, Tuberculosis, p. 100.

  35.  Ibid., p. 101.

  36.  Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Read online at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/tolstoy/karenina, section vi, p. xvii.

  37.  Byrne, Tuberculosis, p. 101.

  38.  Lawlor, Consumption and Literature, p. 188.

  39.  Ibid., p. 198.

  40.  “Tuberculosis,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 9, 2011, http://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/treatment/.

  41.  “International Drug Price Indicator Guide—Vaccine, Bcg,” Management Sciences for Health, 2014, http://erc.msh.org/dmpguide/resultsdetail.cfm?language=english&code=BCG00A&s_year=2014&year=2014&str=&desc=Vaccine%2C%20BCG&pack=new&frm=POWDER&rte=INJ&class_code2=19%2E3%2E&supplement=&class_name=%2819%2E3%2E%29Vaccines%3Cbr%3E.

  Cholera

    1.  Stephen Halliday, “Death and Miasma in Victorian London: An Obstinate Belief,” British Medical Journal, October 23, 2001, http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7327/1469.

    2.  Ibid.

    3.  Ibid.

    4.  Ibid.

    5.  Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 29.

    6.  Steven Johnson, “How the ‘Ghost Map’ Helped End a Killer Disease,” TEDsalon, November 2006, https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_tours_the_ghost_map?language=en#t-59501.

    7.  Charles Dickens, “The Troubled Water Question,” Household Words, a Weekly Journal, April 13, 1850, https://books.google.com/books?id=MPNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=charles+dickens+troubled+water+question&source=bl&ots=aVNLBwQOCh&sig=oAGlhCUH9fzUJik8llHyOxoCjSI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiho5uK8OHLAhWBbiYKHV5iChkQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=charles%20dickens%20troubled%20water%20question&f=false.

    8.  Stephen Halliday, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (Gloucestershire: History Press, 2001), p. 39.

    9.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle location 3539.

  10.  John Snow, “John Snow’s Teetotal Address,” Spring 1836, from the British Temperance Advocate, 1888, UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/teetotal.html.

  11.  Ibid.

  12.  Kathleen Tuthill, “John Snow and the Broad Street Pump,” Cricket, November 2003, UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html.

  13.  John Snow, “On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics: Their Action and Administration,” 1858, Wood Library Museum, http://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/ebooks/item/643/snow,-john.-on-chloroform-and-other-anaesthetics,-their-action-and-administration-(with-a-memoir-of-the-author,-by-benjamin-w.-richardson).

  14.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle location 59.

  15.  Sandra Hempel, “John Snow,” Lancet 381, no. 9874 (April 13, 2013), http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60830-2/fulltext?elsca1=TW.

  16.  Danny Dorling, Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times (Bristol: Policy Press, 2013).

  17.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle location 70.

  18.  John Snow, “On the Mode of Communication of Cholera,” pamphlet (1849), reviewed in the London Medical Gazette, September 14, 1849, John Snow Archive and Research Companion, http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/work.php?id=15-78-28.

  19.  Ibid.

  20.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle location 56.

  21.  Tuthill, “John Snow.”

  22.  Peter Vinten-Johansen Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip, Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

  23.  “Reverend Henry Whitehead,” UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/whitehead.html.

  24.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle edition, location 148.

  25.  “Snow’s Testimony,” UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snows_testimony.html.

  26.  Reuters. “Why Bad Smells Make You Gag,” ABC Science, March 5, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/05/2180489.htm.

  27.  “Snow’s Testimony.”

  28.  Ibid.

  29.  Johnson, The Ghost Map, Kindle location 183.

  30.  John Snow, “Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., President of the General Board of Health,” July 12, 1855, original pamphlet courtesy of the Historical Library, Yale University Medical School, the John Snow Archive and Research Companion, http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/work.php?id=15-78-5A.

  31.  Dorling, Unequal Health, p. 24.

  32.  “Reverend Henry Whitehead.”

  33.  Ibid.

  34.  Ibid.

  35.  Hempel, “John Snow.”

  36.  Vinten-Johansen et al., Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine, p. 395.

  37.  Hempel, “John Snow.”

  38.  “Retrospect of Cholera in the East of London,” Lancet 2 (September 29, 1866), https://books.google.com/books?id=SxxAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1317&lpg=PA1317&dq=The+Lancet+london+Cholera+in+the+east+of+london++September+29+1866&source=bl&ots=Z-bAnpDI5s&sig=ZgLRBf3WznA2gzwsbgZAzmuQBlE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimtf-Ik-LLAhUDKCYKHQQ5DwUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Lancet%20london%20Cholera%20in%20the%20east%20of%20london%20%20September%2029%201866&f=false.

  39.  Ibid.

  40.  Snow, “On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics.”

  Leprosy

    1.  “St. Damien of Molokai,” Catholic Online, http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2817.

    2.  Stephen Brown, “Pope Canonizes Leper Saint Damien, Hailed by Obama,” edited by David Stamp, Reuters, October 11, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/11/us-pope-saints-idUSTRE59A0YW2009101
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    3.  “St. Damien of Molokai.”

    4.  King James Bible (New York: American Bible Society, 1999; New York: Bartleby.com, 2000).

    5.  Kate Yandell, “The Leprosy Bacillus, circa 1873,” TheScientist, October 1, 2013, http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37619/title/The-Leprosy-Bacillus—circa-1873/.