Death by Diarrhea
from Celebrate Creativity Hosted by George Bartley
Send us Fan Mail 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. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
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Send us Fan Mail 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 - an...
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- 0:00 INTRODUCTION
- 1:08 REVISITING "RED DEATH”
- 2:50 MOB VIOLENCE, PARIS, CROWDS
- 9:02 MR. POE EXITS
- 9:28 SURGERY WITHOUT PAINKILLERS!
- 12:10 ETHER AS A PAINKILLER
- 12:21 JOHN SNOW (AND ETHER)
- 13:35 SNOW AND CAUSE OF CHOLERA
- 14:16 STUDYING WATER IN SOHO
- 17:01 KOCH, TUBERCULOSIS, CHOLERA
- 17:46 SHOUTOUT TO BLACKHEATH
- 18:27 HENRY V
- 18:55 FRANKENSTEIN TO BOY GEORGE
- 20:08 INTRO TO COVID PRECAUTIONS
- 20:48 CATHOLIC HYMN
- 21:55 LEARNING TO RECITE
- 24:13 ALONE
- 25:10 A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
- 26:08 ANNABEL LEE
- 28:02 THE RAVEN
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