DAVID HOSACK OF NEW YORK DESCRIBES AN EPIDEMIC OF GERMAN MEASLES IN 1813

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-148
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Duration ◽  
Scarlet Fever ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Distinct Entity ◽  
The Third

Physicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries probably observed cases of rubella, but it was not until 1829 that it was finally separated from measles and scarlet fever and considered as a distinct entity.1 David Hosack (1769-1835)2 observed an epidemic of an eruptive disease in New York in 1813 resembling measles. His description fits that of rubella and was far better one than any other report of this disease until Henry R. Veale's (1832-1908)3 in 1866. Hosack wrote: An eruptive disease in many respects resembling the measles, has prevailed to a considerable extent during the last three months [1813]. Such was the resemblance it bore to the measles in its invasion, the character and extent of the eruption, that by many it was called the French measles. It, however, differed from the measles (rubeola vulgaris) in several particulars. The fever preceding the eruption, was very inconsiderable in degree, and of short duration, not more than twenty-four hours; and in some few cases the eruption appeared without any preceding fever; the eruption itself generally disappeared at the end of the second or beginning of the third day; the eyes were rarely affected with it as in measles, and in no cases as in the latter disease, was it attended with cough or oppression, excepting such as are attendant upon most febrile complaints. In several cases this disease occurred in children, who some time afterwards, were attacked with the measles, attended with all its characteristic symptoms, and in other instances, adults who were certainly known to have had the measles in early life, were the subjects of this eruptive complaint.

Early Years and Architectural Training

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin E. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Ethical Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Design Skills

This chapter focuses on Clarence Samuel Stein's formative years, including the foundations of his work ethic, engagement in learning by doing, community design skills, and commitment to affordable housing. Born in Rochester, New York, on June 19, 1882, into an upwardly mobile Jewish family, Clarence Samuel Stein was the third child of Rose Rosenblatt and Leo Stein. When the Stein Manufacturing Company consolidated with two other firms in 1890 to form the National Casket Company, the Stein family moved to the Chelsea district in New York City. This chapter first provides an overview of New York City's Ethical Culture Society and its influence on Stein's early life before discussing his enrollment in 1905 at Paris's École des Beaux Arts, known for its strong tradition of architectural education with a focus on fostering excellence in design and drafting. It also considers Stein's employment in the office of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue as well as his civic reform work in New York City.

The Development of a Dissenter (1847–1870)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Franzen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Early Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
Valentine's Day ◽  
Anna Howard Shaw ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

This chapter details the early life of Anna Howard Shaw. Anna was born on St. Valentine's Day in 1847 to Thomas and Nicolas Shaw, in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in northeast England, the sixth child and the third daughter of a bankrupt Scottish family. While all members of such struggling families in the mid-nineteenth century faced bleak and limited futures, girl-children, if they survived, had even fewer opportunities. In 1849, her father Thomas sailed for the United States, and in August 1851 Nicolas and her six children boarded the Jacob A. Westervelt in Liverpool for what was to be a seven-week passage to New York. The family made their first American home in the old whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They then moved to a new mill town, Lawrence, in the North on the Merrimac River, which would be their home for the next seven years, during the nation-changing decade of the 1850s. When the Civil War started in April 1861, Anna's two brothers and father volunteered. At only sixteen, Anna shouldered the responsibility for her family's survival.

Issues Surrounding the Development of the Neo-Nazi Scene in East Berlin

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Brothers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

The rise of neo-Nazism in the capital of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not inspired by a desire to recreate Hitler's Reich, but by youthful rebellion against the political and social culture of the GDR's Communist regime. This is detailed in Fuehrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naxi by Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House, New York, 1996). This movement, however, eventually worked towards returning Germany to its former 'glory' under the Third Reich under the guidance of 'professional' Nazis.

International Opera in Nineteenth-century New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-269
Author(s):  
Karen Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War I ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
World War ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The City

This chapter charts how canonic repertories evolved in very different forms in New York City during the nineteenth century. The unstable succession of entrepreneurial touring troupes that visited the city adapted both repertory and individual pieces to the audience’s taste, from which there emerged a major theater, the Metropolitan Opera, offering a mix of German, Italian, and French works. The stable repertory in place there by 1910 resembles to a considerable extent that performed in the same theater today. Indeed, all of the twenty-five operas most often performed between 1883 and 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera were written before World War I. The repertory may seem haphazard in its diversity, but that very condition proved to be its strength in the long term. This chapter is paired with Benjamin Walton’s “Canons of real and imagined opera: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1810–1860.”

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