Epidemic in
the 18th and 19th century writings of certain Moroccan thinkers (brief
presentation)
Mohammed Mouskite,
Epidemics and diseases have always existed in the
tangible worlds of various nations. They have been recording the emergence of
various names for years, inking their memories in written and spoken forms,
some of which take on legendary qualities. Because they are connected to every
aspect of society, including treatment, economics, beliefs, and customs, they
actively shaped societal practices and provide a means of tracking historical
changes and identifying a range of societal issues.
Every culture has developed unique metaphors and representations of illnesses,
mortality, and life. These cultural traits are evident in the facts and are
widely disseminated anytime
Morocco has gone through challenging epidemiological times.Before dispersing over different cities and rural areas, some of them originated outside the nation. Morocco has a long history of plague and syphilis outbreaks. The nation has seen several lethal waves of the disease, notably in the late 16th and late 18th centuries, when it largely decimated the population of Souss and southern Morocco as a whole. At the start of the 19th century, the plague, also known as the black epidemic, was supplanted by the deadly cholera pandemic, also known as the "blue epidemic." Thus, this contagious sickness, which spread over the world in five devastating waves, originated in Asia, traveled through Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea to reach Morocco, and then spread throughout the rest of the nation mostly as a result of trade and military activity.
Every wave claimed a life of thousands of
Moroccans, killing around 6,400 people between 1867 and 1869. It appears that
the world only became comparatively unruly after 1884, and that many Moroccans
didn't stop dying until the middle of the 20th century. With the marriage of
law, medicine, and other sciences, how do the Moroccan scholarly elites view
epidemics?
