By Rachel Engels and Grace Connolly

MEDICAL PRACTICES OF THE 18TH CENTURY

oBelieved in Evil spiritsoMore common in the Countryside

FAITH HEALERS

o Found in large towns and citieso Medicinal supplieso Commercial culture

APOTHECARIES

oMeno Trainingo Treated the wealthyoMethods

PHYSICIANS

o Lady Mary Wortley Montaguo Inoculation-Ottoman Empireo Dangerouso Greatest medical triumph

SMALLPOX

o Edward Jennero Experimental methodo Disappearance of Smallpox

COWPOX

o Bacteriao Robert Koch

ANTHRAX

o Louis Passteur

RABIES

o The study of Anatomyo Cauterizationo Difficulties

1. Painkillers

2. Unsanitary conditions

o Antiseptic methodso Dwale

SURGEONS

o Labor and Deliveryo Treated female problemso Settingo Invention of forcepso Madame du Coudray-Manual on the Art of

Childbirth

MIDWIVES

1. Children’s soothing syrups

2. Cough syrup

AMUSING PRACTICES