Medical Treatments In The 1700s

Medicine in Colonial North America

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Examples include an early 18th-century book of remedies kept by Benjamin Wadsworth, eighth president of Harvard College, in which he recommended grated chocolate to stop a bleeding wound; a mid-18th-century journal of medical conditions and treatments kept by a Boston physician; a 1768 volume of medical recipes and elixirs authored by a Worcester, Massachusetts doctor; a 1780 book of medical preparations maintained by a Boston and New Hampshire physician; and a record of medicinal recipes ...

History of medicine - Medicine in the 18th century

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One highly significant medical advance, late in the century, was vaccination. Smallpox, disfiguring and often fatal, was widely prevalent. Inoculation, which had been practiced in the East, was …

"Medicine has Scarcely Entered its Threshold": Medicine …

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Today many take the modern field of medicine for granted. Doctors have an extensive knowledge of diseases and advanced medical procedures, and most patients …

Surgery in the 1700s | Encyclopedia.com

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Health in the 17th century | Royal Museums Greenwich

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In England, herbal treatment reached its peak of popularity with the publication of the Herbal of Nicholas Culpeper (1616–54), a book also called the English Physician. …

Medicine (Colonial Era) - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

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A process for inoculation for smallpox had been known for much of the 1700s. It involved taking pus from the sores of a smallpox victim and introducing the infected matter into an …

5 strange and sinister medical procedures …

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In the late 1700s, tobacco started to arrive on English shores from the Americas. Along with it came the idea that, when used as an enema, tobacco smoke could cure a wide range of ailments. …

Medical Practices in the 1700s- 1800s - Weebly

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Advances and Practices of the 1700s In the 1700s medicine was very basic and most people did not live past the age of forty years old. Diseases such as Dysentery, smallpox, …

1700s - Evolution of Medicine in Europe

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Treatments In the 1700s, treatments improved because of keen observation, research and the experimental method. The eighteenth century is when treatments and vaccines really started being …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical …

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Addictive drugs like heroin were given to kids to cure coughs, electric shock therapy has been a long used treatment for impotence, and “miracle” diet pills were handed out like candy. …