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By Rachel Engels and Grace Connolly

MEDICAL PRACTICES OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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oBelieved in Evil spiritsoMore common in the Countryside

FAITH HEALERS

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o Found in large towns and citieso Medicinal supplieso Commercial culture

APOTHECARIES

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oMeno Trainingo Treated the wealthyoMethods

PHYSICIANS

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o Lady Mary Wortley Montaguo Inoculation-Ottoman Empireo Dangerouso Greatest medical triumph

SMALLPOX

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o Edward Jennero Experimental methodo Disappearance of Smallpox

COWPOX

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o Bacteriao Robert Koch

ANTHRAX

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o Louis Passteur

RABIES

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o The study of Anatomyo Cauterizationo Difficulties1. Painkillers

2. Unsanitary conditionso Antiseptic methodso Dwale

SURGEONS

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o Labor and Deliveryo Treated female problemso Settingo Invention of forcepso Madame du Coudray-Manual on the Art of

Childbirth

MIDWIVES

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1. Children’s soothing syrups

2. Cough syrup

AMUSING PRACTICES


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