Children's Nonfiction Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
Early Health and Medicine
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1991
- Category
- Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology, First Aid
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780865050303
- Publish Date
- Mar 1991
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780865050310
- Publish Date
- Mar 1991
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8 to 9
- Grade: 3 to 4
Description
Topics covered: • Early attitudes to health and medicine • The lack of knowledge about germs and disease caused the early settlers to wrongly treat the patient • Bleeding, blistering and amputation were standard treatments • Herbal remedies were sometimes effective • The Indians taught remedies to settlers • Ideas about cleanliness and nutrition • Early vitamin discoveries • Contaminated food and milk • Environmental health problems • Childhood diseases • Epidemics: cholera, typhus, smallpox and TB • Education of the early doctors • Great contributors to medicine: Harvey, Galen, Jenner, Pasteur and Lister • The early apothecaries • Other healers: phrenologists, tooth-pullers, homeopaths and quacks • Anesthetics and germ-free surgery • Scientific medicine offers new hope • Back to basics of nutrition and exercise
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