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Memory aids to help you remember some of the major diseases of the 19th century

MR. T   Malaria, Rabies, Tuberculosis

SYSTEMIC  Syphilis, Yellow (Fever), Smallpox, Typhoid, (skip the vowel E,) Malaria, Influenza, Cholera

Warning - Part One of two episodes about cholera -  some really nauseating stuff - info that may gross you out.

• Learn more about the importance of illness to understanding Poe’s life and works.
• Learn what cholera is, and why it is so deadly - and gross.
• Learn how British soldiers died from cholera in mid-sentence.

Sources for this episode include Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography and by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson,  Edgar Allan Poe: The Man by Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe by George E. Woodberry from the American Men of Letters series, The Year Without a Summer by William K. Klingman and Nicholas P. Klingman, Cholera: A Worldwide History by S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler, Cholera: The Victorian Plague by Thomas Amanda, Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm by Rita R. Colwell, Effects of Local Climate Variability on Transmission Dynamics of Cholera in Bangladesh by M.S. Islam, et. al, and an interview with Sean Munger.

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