Tag: Health and wellbeing

Volunteers Needed for Sweet Study

fruit candies

“In order to carry out this study, we do require the help of volunteers, who will be provided with three different diets to consume over the six-week study period. Participants will be given a full report detailing the results of their weight loss, and we would hope that they would see an improvement in their health after taking part.” Professor Alexandra Johnstone

Scurvy, Smallpox, Syphilis: 18thC Living Conditions, Part 4

a person's body cover in the small pox spots

It has been estimated that smallpox was killing as many as 400,000 people per year in Europe by the end of the 18th century. Sadly, the majority of these deaths were children, as it was “chiefly a disease of infancy and early childhood”. However, even if some of the population survive the disease itself, they may well succumb to secondary infections such as bronchopneumonia and streptococcal septicaemia.