The lack of knowledge about germs and disease meant early settlers often treated ailments incorrectly. Often the remedy was worse than the illness. Bleeding, blistering, and amputation were standard treatments. Early Health and Medicine details illnesses, home remedies, and beliefs about cleanliness that the settlers held. - remedies from the Native peoples - contaminated food and milk - childhood diseases - epidemics: cholera, typhus, smallpox, tuberculosis - Pasteur and Lister - early apothecaries - phrenologists, tooth-pullers, and quacks
It's a great book. I loved it because our 5th grade class was going to do reports on colonial trades, and you have one guess that I was assinged the doctor. Well, I couldn't find enough infromation until I found this book. it's really really really really ...good (apologies for the reallys). I learned a lot from it. Maybe if you read it, you'll learn a lot too.
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