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Medicine in Colonial North America

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Throughout this long era of intellectual change, the practice of medicine in colonial America was far from standardized or undisputed. Physicians sought to define themselves as a cohesive professional class in the mid-1700s. In doing so, they rejected medical …

Medicine (Colonial Era) - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

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The belief that each land and climate produced both its own sicknesses and its own remedies led some colonists to seek advice from Native American healers, and …

Colonial Medicine - Smithsonian National Museum of …

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A colonial "doctor" was often physician/apothecary/surgeon — three professions in England. Housewives and clergymen doubled as doctors. Treatment was expensive. For …

Apothecaries in Colonial America

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Since the colonial period developed in the 17th century, the science of medicine revolved around the resources that were available before technology. Due to …

Disease in colonial America - Wikipedia

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How Did Colonial Doctors Work? - The Classroom

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Early colonial medical treatments were very primitive and often had effects that were the opposite of their intentions. To begin with, treatment from a physician was …

Drug therapy in colonial and revolutionary America

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Drug therapy during the Colonial and Revolutionary War period in America is discussed. Therapy in the 17th and 18th centuries remained largely symptomatic rather than …

Mental Health in Colonial America - The Hospitalist

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123117/mental-health-colonial-america

During the hospital’s first 60 years prevailing treatments included solitary confinement, conditioned fear of doctors, powerful but minimally effective drugs, …

Medicine, Empires, and Ethics in Colonial …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicine-empires-and-ethics-colonial-africa/2016-07

This essay examines the history of European empire building and health work in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on four patterns that shed light on the ethics of outside …

Native American Medicine – Legends of America

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The healing traditions of Native Americans go back for thousands of years, as the many indigenous tribes of North America learned that by mixing herbs, roots, and other natural …