By Rachel Engels and Grace Connolly
MEDICAL PRACTICES OF THE 18TH CENTURY
oBelieved in Evil spiritsoMore common in the Countryside
FAITH HEALERS
o Found in large towns and citieso Medicinal supplieso Commercial culture
APOTHECARIES
oMeno Trainingo Treated the wealthyoMethods
PHYSICIANS
o Lady Mary Wortley Montaguo Inoculation-Ottoman Empireo Dangerouso Greatest medical triumph
SMALLPOX
o Edward Jennero Experimental methodo Disappearance of Smallpox
COWPOX
o Bacteriao Robert Koch
ANTHRAX
o Louis Passteur
RABIES
o The study of Anatomyo Cauterizationo Difficulties1. Painkillers
2. Unsanitary conditionso Antiseptic methodso Dwale
SURGEONS
o Labor and Deliveryo Treated female problemso Settingo Invention of forcepso Madame du Coudray-Manual on the Art of
Childbirth
MIDWIVES
1. Children’s soothing syrups
2. Cough syrup
AMUSING PRACTICES