Disease

Eric L. Jones
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Eric L. Jones: University of Buckingham

Chapter Chapter 10 in Barriers to Growth, 2020, pp 87-92 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Pre-industrial centuries were punctuated by epidemics and serious disease outbreaks, including plague, typhus, smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis. The plague had a ‘neutron bomb’ effect, destroying labour but not capital, without however producing the Eastern European result of re-enserfing scarce labour. Except for inoculation and vaccination against smallpox, medical remedies were few. Improvement came instead from environmental changes like cleaner, brick housing. But the growth of urban slums also created a rebound from industrial development, especially the spread of tuberculosis.

Keywords: Plague; Typhus; Smallpox; Malaria; Tuberculosis; ‘Neutron bomb’ effect; Medical remedies; Environmental improvement; Developmental rebound (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44274-3_10

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