Keywords: Contagious Diseases
Item 28592
Katie D. Davenport, Bath, ca. 1882
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1882 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 105525
Women's ward at Maine General Hospital, Portland, 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Portland Media: photographic print
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Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2
"Some examples of these diseases would be smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera. The hospital staff did their best to cure as many patients as possible…"
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Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
