Early 1700s Medical Interventions

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 popularized in England in 1721–22 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is best …

1700 - 1869 • Nursing, History, and Health Care • Penn …

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Philadelphia opens an almshouse, which later becomes Philadelphia General Hospital. In the early American colonial period, local governments established institutions to care for …

"Medicine has Scarcely Entered its Threshold": Medicine in the …

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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 …

The Rise and Practice of Inoculation in the 1700s

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National developments in the 18th and 19th …

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Hospitals founded in the United Kingdom, as the result of voluntary efforts by private citizens, helped to create a pattern that was to become familiar in public health …

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, …

5 strange and sinister medical procedures …

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Unfortunately for those children involved, they developed a wide array of interventions, including bleeding, blistering, and placing leeches on the gums. In some …

30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments | Mental Floss

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The idea of electrotherapy was fairly new in the 1700s, but it was used regularly until the early 1900s for illnesses like epilepsy, paralysis, impotence, …

Ailments, Complaints, and Diseases in the …

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In the 1700s, an Irish herbalist, Elizabeth Pearson, created an herbal poultice and vegetable extract that was advocated as cure and presented to the …

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 …