1. By Kyle Thurow Max Goebl
Medical Practice Pg By
Kyle Thurow
Max Goebl

2. 1700’s Breakthroughs not until 19th century Enlightenment influence
Great increase in experimentation
Medical practitioners increased
Faith healers, apothecaries, physicians, surgeons, and midwives
Women excluded
Beginning of 17th century practices followed traditional middle age medicine

3. 18th Century improvements
Faith healers in the countryside
Exorcise evil spirits
Apothecaries in towns
Sold vast number of drugs and herbs
Physicians
Wealth men
Practiced new methods but also blood letting
Available to only the upper class
“bad blood” still accepted

4. Hospitals and Surgery Midwifery Used to be butchers and barbers
Enlightenment led to true surgeons
War is where most training occurred
Amputation and cauterization
Surgery very difficult
No anesthetics
Died from shock and unsanitary conditions
Midwifery
Delivered majority of babies
Handled women’s health

5. Midwifery (cont.) Smallpox Men general did not help with childbirth
Madame du Coudray “Manual on the art of childbirth”
Smallpox
Surpassed the bubonic plague (60 million in 18th century)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Learned of inoculation in the middle east
1 in 50 died
Edward Jenner ( )
Published findings of vaccination through cowpox in 1798