{"id":2029,"date":"2013-10-07T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2013-10-07T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:21:44","slug":"2000-year-history-of-scabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/10\/07\/2000-year-history-of-scabies\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Year History of Scabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Russell W. Currier<\/span><\/strong>, past president of the American Veterinary Medical History Society will speak on:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Russell Currier lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/documents\/MedicalHOMSCurrier10-13.pdf\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large\">&#8220;2,000 Year History of Scabies:\u00a0 From Humoral Beliefs to Contagion to Modern Understanding&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 24, 2013, 5:30-6:30<br \/>\nRoom 401<br \/>\nUniv. of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/p>\n<p>The transition from Hippocrates\u2019 humors and Galenic dogma to microscopic causes of illness was a long and distressing experience delaying for centuries the concept of contagion.\u00a0 Manifestations of scabies infestations were attributed erroneously to systemic phenomena, even digestive disorders. This lecture will present a 2,000 year review of this\u00a0 wholly human parasite that spread in \u2018deep time\u2019 to numerous animal species as variant subspecies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell W. Currier, past president of the American Veterinary Medical History Society will speak on: &ldquo;2,000 Year History of Scabies:&nbsp; From Humoral Beliefs to Contagion to Modern Understanding&rdquo; Thursday, October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}