Medicine in New England Renaissance

By Ashley Nedley4/29/11

Inventions

Developments• Surgery– No sanitation– No Protection– Disease Spreading

• Home Remedies• Disinfecting surgical tools (late 1860s)– Idea was presented in 1850 but not introduced

until the 60s• Preventive Medicine– Vaccines (small pox)

• Alternative Medicine– “Medieval” or “Cave Man”

• Cutting and draining • Breaking

Role of Women in Medicine

THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS

WOMEN IN MEDICINE!!!!!

• Good for making babies and being a wife to their husbands

Scientific Research

• Anatomical– Physicals

• Preventive Medicine– Vaccines– “Cures”

• Clinical Statistics– Percentages

• Postmortem Findings– Autopsy

• Chest Percussions – Listening to the heart with the newly

discovered stethoscope

Diseases

• Syphilis– Treated with Arsenic and Mercury–Many died from Mercury Poisoning

• TB– Treated With:• Smoking tobacco• Cod Liver Oil• Onion Stew• Mercury

Diseases• Cholera– No official treatment; Mercury

• Dengue Fever– Immobilizing joint pain– Broken bones– No possible treatment

• Diptheria• Influenza• Malaria• Food Poisoning --- MOST COMMON• Typhoid Fever• Typhus• Yellow Fever

Treatments• Cutting veins – Fever• Dover’s Powder– Opium and I Pecae– Treated: pain and induced sweating

• Black Drops– Opium in vinegar

• Laudanam– Opium, alcohol, sugar

• Dragon’s Blood– Red pain resin– Treat impressions in the blood

Treatments

ALL OF THESE WERE TRIED TO CURE SEVERAL DISEASES BUT NONE PREVAILED

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