The Greenock medical martyrs of 1864-65.
In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of duty earned them the description 'medical martyrs'.
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jimmy@jamesthomsonl.wanadoo.co.uk
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D012606:Scotland; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000266:history*