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Miles Standish
Commander of mayflower
officer of the British army
learned physician
English hero
Heroic medicine
the use of medicine prescribed is proportional to the fear of the disease
Not all physicians were surgeons and not all surgeons were
physicians
Western medicine though that fire, water, earth, air were associated with
blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
Traditional docs techniques were rooted in heroic medicine- The body had to be subjected to
more violent subjections even for mild ailments
Healthcare in the 1800s
No
Family took responsibility too
Use of herbalist was
hospitals, take care of family, prominent drug choice
Self care
Many remedies were learned from
focused on if it works
Native Americans, use it
Who was the father of alternative medicine
spoke out against
Dr. Culpeper
bloodletting
Who was the first internationally know physician, Father of psychiatry and one of the signers of the Dec. of Independence
He said that we should not let a single healthcare power gets stronger than another
Dr, Benjamin Rush
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