Medical Problems Between 1800-1820

What Was Healthcare Like in the 1800s?

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Nonetheless, most people did not consult doctors, who charged high fees, relying mostly on home remedies, midwives, local folk healers, or in the case of …

Medicine in Colonial North America

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Most lived far from physicians and relied on home remedies for both acute and mundane medical problems. [i] In February 1652, Daniell Clarke of Windsor, Connecticut wrote to …

History of medicine - Medicine in the 18th …

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By the 18th century the medical school at Leiden had grown to rival that of Padua, and many students were attracted there from abroad. Among them was John Monro, an …

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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In England, where the Industrial Revolution and its adverse effects on health were first experienced, there arose in the 19th century a movement toward sanitary reform that …

Health and hygiene in the 19th century | The …

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Health and hygiene in the 19th century In a time when diseases like smallpox, cholera and TB were insatiable and continued to relapse in epidemical waves, …

A Picture of Health - Timeline - National …

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Scientists were still developing their understanding of how the human body worked, germs had yet to be identified, and antiseptics and antibiotics were unheard of. Hospitals as …

Health Care and the American Medical …

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It was not until what Michael Bliss has described as “the coming age of modern medicine between 1885 and 1922”– a period which saw the growth of medical …

Overview: Medicine 1800-1899 | Encyclopedia.com

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The chemical revolution of the eighteenth century challenged traditional ways of classifying foods. By the end of the nineteenth century these chemical categories were …

Reform Movements 1800s | National …

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The nineteenth century was a time for social reform in the United States. Some historians have even labeled the period from 1830 to 1850 as the “Age of Reform.” Women, in …