The Proliferation of Disease In the 19th century you could say that conditions for wide spread epidemics were ideal. People lived in hovels barely fit for habitation and probably better suited to livestock than human beings. More often than not people were jammed like animals into these dwellings, sometimes more than a half dozen to a room designed for two or three. And the conditions inside such a dwelling were ideal for sickness. Sometimes barely …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…These days we have standardized practices that eliminate the possibility of treatments as archaic and brutal as bleeding a patient. The development of drugs and safe ways they could be administered were also an invaluable addition to the medical field. But a major accomplishment is the evolution of mindset of the common man, which is an invaluable commodity in the time of panic that an epidemic can spark. We have truly come a long way.