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I awoke in my own bed.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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I begin to get new lights on certain things which have puzzled me. Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say:

"My tablets! Quick, my tablets! 'Tis meet that I put it down," etc.,

for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for response.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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There was a card on the table, on which was written:

I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me.

—D.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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5 May. – I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach to such a remarkable place.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's "Lenore":

"Denn die Todten reiten schnell."

("For the dead travel fast.")

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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He went, but immediately returned with a letter:

My Friend,

Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your start in my beautiful land.

Your friend,

DRACULA.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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3 May. Bistritz. – Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

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In short, it remains a matter of both chance and choice, and the role of history is to help us see our choices a little more clearly, by seeing ourselves a little more clearly: as one species, ingenious and vulnerable, whose health is intimately dependent on each other and on the planet we share with our invisible companions.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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In the context of these challenges, the tensions between broader development programs and technical interventions flared anew.⁶⁷

67. Development economists debate to what extent malaria impedes development directly – that is, through the channel of human health – or indirectly – that is, through the historical legacy of institutional development mediated by disease environments.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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The government carried out mass vaccination, and in 1952 it launched the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign to control infectious disease, build sanitary infrastructure, and implement vector eradication (see figure 12.4).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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Rates of paralysis and death were higher for adolescents and adults who contracted the virus. Most famously, the blue-blooded Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with the disease in 1921, at the age of thirty-nine.⁴⁵

45. The appearance of outbreaks in Sweden in the second half of the nineteenth century coincided too with expansion of public health measures such as the Public Health Act of 1874.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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Polio epidemics first appeared in places where fecal-oral disease might seem least likely: among prosperous, northerly, and often rural populations. As the hygiene revolution spread, so did polio (figure 12.3). Jumps in polio cases almost invariably followed improvements in the water supply and reductions in water-borne bacterial diseases.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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We can measure the contribution of vaccines in three ways:

Vaccines have reduced morbidity and often sealed the final victory over major diseases.

Vaccines helped to globalize good health much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible.

Vaccines enable humanity to maintain control against new or escalating threats, especially as world population has grown.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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Pasteur and his associates soon developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies. In the 1890s, vaccines for typhoid, plague, and cholera appeared, with one for whooping cough close behind.³⁸

38. Although Jenner's discovery was long without equal, its was not completely isolated. Experiments with measles inoculation were tried from the late eighteenth century.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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Finally, vaccines have been and remain instrumental in clinching victory over some of the otherwise most intractable infectious diseases, especially viral diseases (see table 12.1).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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The chlorination of drinking water virtually eliminated the danger of typhoid (figure 12.2).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper