INSALUBRIOUS CALIFORNIA: PERCEPTION AND REALITY
INSALUBRIOUS CALIFORNIA: PERCEPTION AND REALITY
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不健康的加州：认知与现实
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8306.1969.tb00657.x
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1969
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K. Thompson
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摘要在十九世纪，人们如此强调加州的“健康”，以至于人们似乎忽视了这样一个事实，即并不是所有的加州都被视为非常健康。事实上，在美国占领的头50年左右，加利福尼亚州的大部分地区，主要是中央山谷，被认为是天生不健康的。对这种不健康的看法主要涉及疟疾以及疟疾被诊断为与之混淆的某些其他疾病。在19世纪，疟疾是北美最常见的疾病之一，并在1880年左右在加利福尼亚州达到地方性流行的高峰。医生中的主流学说是，疟疾是由“恶劣的空气”或烟雾引起的。根据这一学说，烟雾被认为是由腐烂的有机物质产生的，在沼泽或新扰动的土壤中最为丰富。在加利福尼亚州，疟疾流行最高的地区是...
ABSTRACT Such great emphasis was attached to the “salubriousness” of California during the nineteenth century that attention seems to have been diverted from the fact that not all of the state was viewed as outstandingly healthful. Indeed, during the first fifty years or so of American occupance a substantial section of California, mainly the Central Valley, was regarded as inherently insalubrious. Perception of this insalubrity mainly involved malaria together with certain other diseases with which malaria was diagnostically confused. During the nineteenth century malaria was one of the most common diseases of North America and reached a peak of endemicity in California about 1880. The governing doctrine among medical practitioners was that malaria was caused by “bad air” or miasma. According to this doctrine, miasma was believed to be produced by decaying organic matter and was most abundant in marshes or in areas of newly disturbed soil. In California, the region of highest malarial endemicity was the ...