2024年12月13日 · On the basis of work begun in the 18th century, René Laënnec, a native of Brittany, who practiced medicine in Paris, invented a simple stethoscope, or cylindre, as it was originally called. In 1819 he wrote a treatise , De l’auscultation médiate (“On Mediate Auscultation ”), describing many of the curious sounds in the heart and lungs ...

2020年9月21日 · Eighteenth-century professional medicine was heavily influenced by the science of the Enlightenment. While superstitious beliefs were not promoted in the professional textbooks, practitioners occasionally mention details when they encountered them.

Some may contend that the key concerns of medical historians have continued to gravitate around traditional themes – professionalisation, medical personnel, diseases and mortality, medical education, medical knowledge and technologies, therapeutic theory and practice, and institutional medicine.

In discussing early American medicine, one must keep in mind (i) the nature of European medicine during the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries, and the means by which this was transmitted to the Colonies, and (2) the social and in-tellectual circumstances in America which impinged upon medicine once it was established here.

2017年9月25日 · In Colonial America, the average life expectancy rate was around 35 years, and that is, in great part, due to incorrect theories and knowledge of the human body, improperly educated medical doctors, practices, and medicine. The medical knowledge of the doctors in colonial was so little that most of the practitioners in America would not have ...

medical guide in the British colonies, and then in the United States, well into the 19th century. On the basis of this success, Buchan became a prominent physician in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1805. Written for a popular audience, it is an ideal introduction into medical theory and practice in the 18th century.

2024年9月30日 · Includes 32 million pages from books, pamphlets, and essays printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century. More than 300,000 digitized medical texts. Select illustrations from anatomical atlases, dating ~1500-1900. Texts from 1610-1920, on the development of medical practices in the Americas; mostly Euro-American sources.

A ny study of early 18th-century American medicine will involve Benjamin Rush. Not only did he make important contributions to medicine and provide direct instructions for Lewis, he is also considered the father of psychiatry in America because of his Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812), the first book on ...

Medicinal advancements during the 18th century played a crucial role in contributing to demographic changes by lowering mortality rates through improved healthcare practices. With better surgical techniques and the introduction of vaccinations like Jenner's smallpox vaccine, people were able to survive diseases that previously had high fatality ...

One of the most important developments of European medicine in the 18th century was the incorporation of immunization as a prevention against disease. Practiced in Turkey for an unknown amount of time, it was brought to England and proven effective enough to become a part of public discussion.