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Colonial HealthcareHenry, Azi , Jake, Shimmy, Tifi, Amalia, Julia , Merav, Jacob
Apothecary shopAn Apothecary shop sold medicines and herbal remedies
It has many drawers to keep herbs and medicine
An apothecary had tools like a mortar and pestle to grind herbs in order to make medicine.
HerbsFoxglove... lowers the heart rate if you had Scarlet fever
Rosa Mundi ...sore throats
Chamomile soothes babies and helps you sleep
Forget-me-nots..lotion for eyes
Small pox
Starts as blister, then spreads all over body
Very contagious
Discovered in 1120 by Variola
Children are inoculated today
Quacks and their Odd Cures
Quacks were not real doctors
They made up medicines and sold them for money
They used cures like gun powder, pine cones and kidney beans!
Childhood illnesses Children got scarlet fever, slowed their heart beat, many of them died.
Whooping cough made it hard to breathe
Poliomyelitis could hurt the spinal cord
TuberculosisBacteria causes tuberculosis
There was no cure but nowadays there is are antibiotics
Sometimes it affects people's legs
Symptoms: cough, fatigue, weight loss, fever
Medical Care in the Army
George Washington had his troops inoculated against small pox
Amputation was common
Women cared for the sick and injured
Thank you for coming to our Colonial Day booth to learn about
colonial healthcare!