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Food and Medical Practice

Food and Medical Practice . By Josie and Peyton, and edited by Tom . Diet and Nutrition . People depended on grain for their diet “Just price”: most people believed in this medieval idea  prices should be ‘fair’ and imposed by government decrees

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Food and Medical Practice

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  1. Food and Medical Practice By Josie and Peyton, and edited by Tom

  2. Diet and Nutrition • People depended on grain for their diet • “Just price”: most people believed in this medieval idea  prices should be ‘fair’ and imposed by government decrees • This idea clashed with the free-market philosophy [Smith] which was favored by government officials , economists, and landowners. • Food riots and public disturbances

  3. The potato, market gardening, bread, and sugar • Basically, people ate a lot of potatoes

  4. The “Hard to read” slide • The enlightenment focused on laws and nature  gave rise to number of practitioners and experimentation/research in medicine • Faith healers believed demons and evil spirits caused disease • Urban cities: apothecaries sold expensive drugs, only which a few worked like strong laxatives and regular purging: considered vital for good health

  5. Physicians • Frequently bled people let people die • Apprenticed in their teens for several years… (oh god not again)

  6. Surgeons • Made considerable medical/social progress • Amy surgeons led the way • However they didn’t have painkillers [people died of shock] and performed surgery in midst of filth  bacteria and infection

  7. Midwives • Suspected of witch-craft in 16th/17th c. • Orchestrated labor and birth for women • Male surgeons avoided this (wonder why?)

  8. Hospitals and Medical Experiments • Hospitals kept in poor condition • Crowded, no fresh air, and hospital reform began in late 18c century due to Diderot’s article • Mental hospitals savage • Mental illness misunderstood and inhumanely treated

  9. Medical Experimentation • Intensified in second half of 18th c. • Creative quackery (?) involving discovery of electricity • Greatest triumph: conquest of smallpox • Helped lay foundation for science of immunology in 19th c.

  10. Multiple Choice Questions (I hope Iknow the answers) • Which class had a better diet? • The wealthy • The poor • What occupation was often suspected of witchcraft? • Midwives • Surgeons • Physician • What new food helped the poor a lot from not starving? • Tomato • Corn • potato

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