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Public health - Medieval, Hygiene, Diseas…

(2 days ago) Health in the 17th century. Next time you reach for a painkiller, be grateful you weren't relying on Stuart medical treatments. Very little was known about hygiene in 17th-century England. People were not aware that disease was spread by germs which thrived on dirt. They did not think of washing their hands … See more

https://www.britannica.com/topic/public-health/The-Middle-Ages

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Mental illness in the 16th and 17th centuries Historic …

(4 days ago) WEBRichard Napier was a clergyman, medical practitioner and astrologer who treated thousands of patients worried about their mental health between 1597 and 1634. Servants, …

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1485-1660/mental-illness-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries/

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Medical History — The Seventeenth Century – …

(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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Public health - Medieval, Hygiene, Disease Britannica

(2 days ago) WEBAs a result, public health problems continued to be handled on a local community basis, as they had been in medieval times. Scientific advances of the 16th and 17th centuries laid the foundations of anatomy and …

https://www.britannica.com/topic/public-health/The-Middle-Ages

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17th Century Medicine: A Major Obstacle Faced by the …

(4 days ago) WEBCupping Glass from the collection of Historic Jamestowne, located in the Vault, Object # 7890-JR.. Sciatica: (Noun) Pain affecting the back, hip, and outer side of the leg, caused …

https://stlukesmuseum.org/edu-blog/17th-century-medicine-a-major-obstacle-faced-by-the-jamestown-colony/

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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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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early …

(7 days ago) WEBIn the 17th century, notions of freedom and individualism pushed people to question old ways and old authorities. Yet it was also one in which anxiety and mental …

https://lithub.com/how-anxiety-evolved-through-the-middle-ages-and-early-modern-europe/

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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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The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages?

(7 days ago) WEBFor Britain, the earliest systematic health records date to the 17th century; extrapolating such records back to medieval times requires caution (Mitchell, 2017). …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879981721000590

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An example of health education in the early 17th century:

(2 days ago) WEBMental and emotional problems. Perhaps unusually for the early 17th century, Vaughan includes mental illnesses. ‘As the cure of the bodyes griefes consists …

https://academic.oup.com/her/article/20/6/656/601695

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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 Emergence of Psychiatry: 1650–1850 American Journal of …

(2 days ago) WEBWestern psychiatry emerged as a medical specialty caring for the mentally ill over the course of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This emergence was a …

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.21060614

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From the 16th to the 21st Century: how we approach mental …

(8 days ago) WEBThe number of psychiatric hospital beds across 28 EU countries has in fact declined from 97.3 per 100 000 population in 2000, to 68.5 in only 2001 (Eurostat, 2015). In addition to …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/04AA2E1E3C8CC1626D48E93332C05BFD/S204579601500061Xa.pdf/div-class-title-from-the-16th-to-the-21st-century-how-we-approach-mental-health-problems-and-where-do-we-go-next-div.pdf

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Early modern Britain and the people's health, c.1500-c.1750 - OCR B

(6 days ago) WEBLearn about and revise health in early modern Britain, c.1500-c.1750 with BBC Bitesize GCSE History - OCR B. problems in towns; Responses to plague - ordinary people …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zggjwnb/revision/1

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Disease in colonial America - Wikipedia

(7 days ago) WEBDisease in colonial America that afflicted the early immigrant settlers was a dangerous threat to life. Some of the diseases were new and treatments were ineffective. Malaria …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_in_colonial_America

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Industrialization and health British Medical Bulletin Oxford …

(1 days ago) WEBThus one of France’s most eminent historians has famously written of the era of rising world trade from the 14th century to the 17th as the era of ‘l’unification …

https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/69/1/75/523332

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History of Europe - Health, Sickness, Disease Britannica

(Just Now) WEBHealth and sickness. By the dislocation of markets and communications and the destruction of shipping, and by diverting toward destructive ends an excessive proportion of …

https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/Health-and-sickness

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Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the …

(3 days ago) WEBThe longest running series, covering the 1820–1965 birth cohorts, is from Sandberg and Steckel (1997) and measures men at age 21 (born 1820–97), age 20 (born 1898–1929), …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577070/

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Myth and Misdiagnosis Have Plagued Women's Health for Centuries

(4 days ago) WEBThis idea stuck around through the 19th century, when many women’s physical and mental health conditions were dismissed as “hysteria”—a word that comes …

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/western-medicines-woman-problem-180977925/

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How Did They Treat Mental Health in Previous Centuries?

(9 days ago) WEBMental Health Treatment in the 1900s. Lobotomy was once considered a miracle cure for mental health issues. It was a highly traumatic brain surgery carried out …

https://fherehab.com/learning/treat-mental-health-centuries

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Changes in the prevention of disease - improving public health

(6 days ago) WEBLearn about and revise medicine in 18th- and 19th-century Britain from c.1700 to c.1900 with BBC Bitesize GCSE History - Edexcel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxbqjsg/revision/8

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From the 16th to the 21st Century: how we approach mental …

(3 days ago) WEBThe first Editorial of this issue, by Ventriglio & Bhugra (), discusses the influence of the 16th century philosopher Descartes and his concept of mind-body …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367362/

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Public health - National Developments, 18th & 19th Centuries

(9 days ago) WEBPublic health - National Developments, 18th & 19th Centuries: Nineteenth-century movements to improve sanitation occurred simultaneously in several European …

https://www.britannica.com/topic/public-health/National-developments-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries

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Global Health Then and Now CFR Education

(6 days ago) WEBAnd global health gains haven’t been uniform. Medical experts have made progress worldwide in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. In 2022, global deaths from the …

https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/global-health-then-and-now

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