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Health in the 17th century Royal Museums Greenwich

(6 days ago) Chinese people had been using plants for medicinal purposes for 4,500 years and some of these had been brought to Europe. Many domestic plants, such as foxglove and marshmellow, were also used to treat illnesses. As well as these, doctors believed in the power of powders said to be made from strange ingredients … See more

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/health-17th-century

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Medical History — The Seventeenth Century – HealthGuidance.org

(8 days ago) WEBJan Baptista van Helmont (1577-1644) was the leading Paracelsian and iatrochemist of the seventeenth century. After taking a medical degree in 1599, Van …

https://www.healthguidance.org/entry/6350/1/medical-history-the-seventeenth-century.html

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Medicine in Colonial North America Worlds of Change

(3 days ago) WEBIn 17th- and 18th-century North America, the medical profession developed in tandem with the founding of the American Republic. Through Harvard Library’s vast manuscript and …

https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/worlds-of-change/feature/medicine-in-colonial-north-america

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Medical Knowledge and Medicinal Herbs in the 17th …

(2 days ago) WEBIn 1652, therefore, he published his complete herbal “The English Physitian”. He listed all the known herbal remedies, with …

https://www.newcastlesfoote.co.uk/medical-knowledge-and-medicinal-herbs-in-the-17th-century/

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Medicine (Colonial Era) - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

(6 days ago) WEBThe health of the colonial population varied by race and region. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as in the rest of the colonies, Native Americans were struck by epidemic …

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/medicine-colonial-era/

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Parliament and medicine in the early 17th century

(6 days ago) WEBContinuing the theme of health, medicine and Parliament, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-29 Section considers how medical practices and language impacted on parliamentary proceedings under …

https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/parliament-and-medicine-in-the-early-17th-century/

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Women and Medicine in Early America Oxford Research …

(3 days ago) WEBUnderstandings of Health and Medicine in Early America. In order to understand healers and healing, it is necessary to understand the body. People of the 17th and 18th …

https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-942

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The Historic Healing Power of the Beach - The Atlantic

(8 days ago) WEBFor centuries we looked to the sand and surf as a fully-stocked pharmacy. But first, we had to get over our fear of the sea. Any 17th-century European pirate could tell you terrifying tales of sea

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/the-historic-healing-power-of-the-beach/279175/

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The Population Health Approach in Historical Perspective

(3 days ago) WEBPrevious efforts to devise scientific measures of health, pioneered by Graunt and Petty’s political arithmetic of London’s 17th-century bills of mortality, were now urgently …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449802/

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Medicine - Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford Bibliographies

(9 days ago) WEBMedicine in Renaissance and Reformation Europe was a study in both continuity and change. Overall, the medical landscape was a complex web that …

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0186.xml

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How Early Modern Empire Changed Medicine - Boston Review

(Just Now) WEBScience. How Early Modern Empire Changed Medicine. Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. …

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/zachary-dorner-how-early-modern-empire-turned-people-patients/

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Health, national character and the English diet in 1700 - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBHalf a century earlier, however, debate raged about the appropriate diet for the English temperament, a term laden with medical as well as political implications. John Evelyn's …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22520184/

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The History of Health Food, Part 2: Medieval and Renaissance …

(Just Now) WEBThis is the second in a three-part series about the history of health foods, from antiquity to the present day. It wasn't until the 16th century, Albala writes, that …

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-health-food-part-2-medieval-and-renaissance-periods-70192474/

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How Coffee, Chocolate and Tea Overturned a 1,500-Year-Old …

(9 days ago) WEBAs international commerce grew throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, demand for all three exploded. physicians’ diagnostic vocabulary in the 17th century, …

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-coffee-chocolate-and-tea-overturned-1500-year-old-medical-mindset-180963339/

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Chocolate in History: Food, Medicine, Medi-Food - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBHowever, during the 17th century and in the first half of the 18th, the question about the medical use of chocolate entered the Academy, and it was also the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708337/

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Medical Renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries - Advances in …

(6 days ago) WEBLearn and revise for GCSE History Health and Medicine about the main advances in medical knowledge over time. WJEC Medical Renaissance of the 16th and 17th …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zyscng8/revision/2

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David Gentilcore. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet

(4 days ago) WEBDavid Gentilcore’s eight-chapter study, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800, navigates this tricky historical interplay …

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/122/4/1298/4320365

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The Age of Scurvy Science History Institute

(2 days ago) WEBIn a time of warring empires and transoceanic voyages, sailors dreaded scurvy more than any other disease. One summer evening in 1808, while on a stroll …

https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-age-of-scurvy/

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The history (and health claims) of the tea - Medical Xpress

(2 days ago) WEBTea came to Britain in the 17th century and its popularity stems from Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess and tea addict, the wife of Charles II. Her …

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-history-health-tea.html

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Timeline of Public Health over time Schoolshistory.org.uk

(4 days ago) WEB1853, Britain. Smallpox vaccination is made compulsory. 1854, London: Edwin Chadwick is sacked and the General Board of Health is abolished. 1861, France. Pasteur shows that …

https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/medicine-through-time/timelines-medicine/timeline-of-public-health-over-time/

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History of tobacco and our health University of Leicester

(2 days ago) WEBA 400 year old habit. Tobacco was introduced to England in the 16th century, at which time it was purported to have huge and varied medicinal properties, its use becoming …

https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/tobacco-history

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What was the first health insurance company in America?

(4 days ago) WEBThe Odd Fellows were a mutual benefit society that started in the late 17th century (possibly earlier, but there seems to be debate there). And, interestingly, in the …

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/70685/what-was-the-first-health-insurance-company-in-america

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Smoking in the 17th century: 'Youths-bane' - Royal College of

(4 days ago) WEBOne doctor in the early seventeenth century having gone so far as to write proposing that tobacco should be renamed as “Youths-bane”, given its adverse health effects. The …

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/smoking-17th-century-youths-bane

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