1. Food and Medical Practice
By Josie and Peyton, and edited by Tom

2. Diet and Nutrition People depended on grain for their diet
“Just price”: most people believed in this medieval idea  prices should be ‘fair’ and imposed by government decrees
This idea clashed with the free-market philosophy [Smith] which was favored by government officials , economists, and landowners.
Food riots and public disturbances

3. The potato, market gardening, bread, and sugar
Basically, people ate a lot of potatoes

4. The “Hard to read” slide
The enlightenment focused on laws and nature  gave rise to number of practitioners and experimentation/research in medicine
Faith healers believed demons and evil spirits caused disease
Urban cities: apothecaries sold expensive drugs, only which a few worked like strong laxatives and regular purging: considered vital for good health

5. Physicians Frequently bled people let people die
Apprenticed in their teens for several years… (oh god not again)

6. Surgeons Made considerable medical/social progress
Amy surgeons led the way
However they didn’t have painkillers [people died of shock] and performed surgery in midst of filth  bacteria and infection

7. Midwives Suspected of witch-craft in 16th/17th c.
Orchestrated labor and birth for women
Male surgeons avoided this (wonder why?)

8. Hospitals and Medical Experiments
Hospitals kept in poor condition
Crowded, no fresh air, and hospital reform began in late 18c century due to Diderot’s article
Mental hospitals savage
Mental illness misunderstood and inhumanely treated

9. Medical Experimentation
Intensified in second half of 18th c.
Creative quackery (?) involving discovery of electricity
Greatest triumph: conquest of smallpox
Helped lay foundation for science of immunology in 19th c.

10. Multiple Choice Questions (I hope I know the answers)
Which class had a better diet?
The wealthy
The poor
What occupation was often suspected of witchcraft?
Midwives
Surgeons
Physician
What new food helped the poor a lot from not starving?
Tomato
Corn
potato