Medical Illnesses In 1800

Ailments, Complaints, and Diseases in the 1700 and 1800s

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To help you understand the diseases people faced in the 1700 and 1800s, here is a list, in alphabetical order, of the more common diseases, ailments, and complaints. ... It seemed to be a medical mystery even into the mid-1700s when the mystery was …

What Was Healthcare Like in the 1800s?

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The cure lay in eliminating those elements called humors by removing the offending substance through some bodily orifice -- the mouth, nose, rectum, or the …

Common Diseases of the 18th and 19th Century

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Malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bites. Common symptoms of the disease are fever, tiredness, vomiting, …

Medicine in Colonial North America

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Essay by 2016 Arcadia Fellow Theresa McCulla. In 17th- and 18th-century North America, the medical profession developed in tandem with the founding of the American Republic. …

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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History of medicine - Medicine in the 18th …

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Medicine in the 18th century. Even in the 18th century the search for a simple way of healing the sick continued. In Edinburgh the writer and lecturer John Brown expounded …

What an 1836 Typhus Outbreak Taught the Medical …

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During the 1800s in the United States doctors had relatively few chances to witness true epidemic typhus firsthand, and historical references to “typhus” could refer to …

Old-Fashioned Names for Diseases and …

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Apoplexy. Apoplexy is a now-dated term for what we now call a stroke, or the bleeding of an organ from hemorrhage. Both types of ailments were usually accompanied by a …

Changes in Medicine During the 19th Century

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By the early 1800s, medical schools in the United States became more prestigious but the older, more established medical schools were overseas in Europe still …

Some Medical Term Used in Old Records

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Some Medical Terms Used in Old Records. Death records, beginning in the late 1880s, generally provided a cause of death. ... In the late 1800 and early 1900's, infectious …