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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (3): 399.
Published: 01 August 1946
...S. F. Cook The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian . By Stearn E. Wagner and Stearn Allen E. . ( Boston : Bruce Humphries, Inc. , 1945 . Pp. 153 . $2.50 .) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 393–423.
Published: 01 August 1989
... of the early proponents of vaccination in Spain also received the fluid from Paris, as well as French scientific publications on the subject. 4 Puerto Rico had undergone catastrophic smallpox epidemics in 1518, 1689, and 1792, and smaller outbreaks in 1528-30, 1597, 1623-24, and throughout...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
... agents invaded homes to disinfect them with sulfur to kill the mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever, and to vaccinate residents against smallpox. An elite coalition invoked the constitutional right to the home's inviolability against state interference in this private space. For working-class people...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 321–337.
Published: 01 August 1967
... then no smallpox; they had then no burning chest; they had then no abdominal pain; they had then no consumption; they had then no headache. At that time the course of humanity was orderly. The foreigners made it otherwise when they arrived here. It would be easy to attribute this lamentation to the nostalgia...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 365–368.
Published: 01 May 1991
... (smallpox), 99 (Sweden). 2 Philip Kalisch, “The Black Death in Chinatown: Plague and Politics in San Francisco, 1900-1904,“ Arizona and the West , 14:2 (Summer, 1972), 113-126. 3 Michelle Burge McAlpin, Subject to Famine: Food Crisis’ and Economic Change in Western India , 1860-1920...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 693–694.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Juan A. Villamarin To complement Frías’ monograph, future work on smallpox, as well as on disease in general in New Granada, needs to focus on the rural areas, where health care was even less available than in the cities and death rates often proportionately higher than in urban centers. Frías...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 549–551.
Published: 01 November 1963
...,” by Fuentes y Guzmán, was the first medical botany of Guatemala written by a Guatemalan’ It has excellent descriptions of many plant drugs still used by the curanderos to-day. The second part describes viruela—supposedly smallpox—introduced into Mexico by a Negro in the troops of Pánfilo Narváez, 1520...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 August 2013
... information on the diseases that will play such an important role in the unfolding of his narrative: smallpox, typhus, typhoid, cholera, and yellow fever. It was the public health officials who determined the medical border, the line drawn to protect American citizens. As a result, public health policies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): viii.
Published: 01 May 1995
... on religion and disease; he is currently writing a social history of smallpox and conducting research on the culture of missionaries. His published writings include “Revising the Conquest of Mexico: Smallpox, Sources, and Populations” ( Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 1993); “The First Impact...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 3–51.
Published: 01 February 2003
... of the natives. Three religious men of the Hyeronimite order were sent to the island at the end of 1516 as a governing body; among other things they planned to regroup the dispersed natives into thirty villages, but a smallpox epidemic erupted at the end of 1518, wiping out many of the surviving Indians. When...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 580–581.
Published: 01 August 2012
... . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Heather McCrea offers an innovative understanding of public health in Yucatán through her study of smallpox, cholera, and yellow fever epidemics, which “are conceptualized as diseased ‘moments’ ” that provide “insight into the processes of state-building...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., and Cuba before arriving in New Spain in 1804. A branch of the expedition reached South America. Marking as it did a successful transition in medical theories and disease management policies, the expedition—especially the doctors and bureaucrats who made the smallpox vaccine available to children around...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 667–675.
Published: 01 November 1990
... acts of fanatical courage that were recognized as such by the most implacable enemies of Francisco Solano López. Reber is undoubtedly right in noting that dysentery, fevers, and respiratory problems had a higher incidence in Paraguay than smallpox, measles, or cholera. However, her principal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 289–319.
Published: 01 May 1988
.... 30 In addition to battle-connected fatalities, disease among the civilian as well as military populations was most certainly responsible for large numbers of Paraguayan deaths. Observers reported that diseases such as measles, smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera, which had been insignificant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 707.
Published: 01 November 1990
...” by their exclusion from major political events. Carvalho contrasts the military coup of November 1889 and early republican politics with the revolt against compulsory smallpox vaccination 15 years later, to illustrate the difference between “inactive” and “active” exercise of citizenship. The former...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 498–500.
Published: 01 August 1973
... permanently disrupted and damaged the delicate ecological balance of both areas. Confronted with such a vast subject the author wisely concentrated on three major themes—the interchange of (1) diseases, notably syphilis, smallpox and measles, (2) food crops, especially maize, beans, wheat, potatoes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 766–767.
Published: 01 November 2003
... story of Dr. Manuel Núñez Butrón, who created sanitary brigades to fight smallpox and typhus in the southern Andean department of Puno. By linking public health to respect for native culture and the struggle of Andean communities to retain their lands, Indian sanitary workers were able to educate many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 517–519.
Published: 01 August 1994
... a French state keen to reduce slave mortality through vaccination against smallpox and, in general, to apply current medical knowledge to the colony. Unlike the case in neighboring Spanish slave societies, physicians apparently outnumbered priests; indeed, the church seems to have figured very little...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 February 2010
... on the native population. In the Caribbean it was not disease but the unsupportable weight of the Spanish occupation that ripped apart the native community and put its numbers in an irreversible decline before the first epidemic, smallpox, appeared in Santo Domingo in 1518. When smallpox spread to Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 309–311.
Published: 01 May 1993
... of contagion and indigenous responses to the smallpox epidemic of 1791, which ran its course on this armed frontier. Echoing Alchon’s theme of the expanding power of the Bourbon state, Casanueva argues that frontier authorities exploited the impact of the 1791 epidemic to extend their control “over colonial...
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