Health and Medicine

HEALTH

• People lived long and helthy lives in rural communities
• Average life expectancy is about fifty years old or higher
• The same as Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.
• Japanese had fewer reasons to visit the doctor

MEDICINE/DISEASES

• American Revelutionary War made it hard to find medicine.
• Tobacco was a powerful medicine and cured many diseases
• Tobacco smoke, Ritual mask ceremonies, Herbs
• When it got colder, it limited the consequences of Malaria.

EUROPEAN Settlers

• Frontier and coastal regions contained healthy people
• Free from severall harmful diseases
• Health of Indians ended because Europeans and their diseases
• Colonial New Englanders lived longer than colonists in the south.
• Many people died traveling on ships

Sanitation

• Good health is attributed to a religious emphasis on hygiene.
• Hygiene in New England, and on ships were terrible
• Ships filled with diseases, lack of refrigeration and dietary illnesses
• Frontier colonists rarely bathed, brushed teeth, sanitized items

Doctors

• Medical professionals were in each of the societies
• Physicians, surgeons, dentists, nurses
• Prescribed animal dung to patients
• Combination of eggshells and snails to reduce painful symptoms
• Acupuncture, massage, moxan (burning of medicine onto the skin)

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