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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Health Care\, 18th Century Style
DESCRIPTION:Any assessment of health care in the 18th century\, when life expectancy on both sides of the Atlantic averaged about 43 years\, must include personnel ranging from educated physicians through barbers and midwives to neighborhood quacks.  Diseases were attributed to superstitions\, to bad behavior\, or inhalation of foul air.  Remedies included everything from herbal extracts\, poultices\, and cold baths to the most “advanced” treatments of bloodletting by non-sterile instruments or even leeches. During the entire century people lived in constant fear of smallpox and yellow fever.  Important events happened in the last decade of the century regarding these two diseases: the horrendous epidemic of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia and the startling circumstances that led to development of a vaccine for smallpox.\n\nThe lecture will include an overall assessment of health care in colonial America and England;  specific treatments and procedures available at the time and a demonstration of several items of medical equipment used during the period; and a focus on two events in the last decade of the 18th century – the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia and the development of smallpox vaccine in England.\n\nPresented by Jim Miller. Jim is a Graeme Park volunteer and former board member. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and was a professor at Delaware Valley University before retiring.\n\nLunch will include:\n\n \tHot entrée\n \tDeli tray with rolls and  sandwich “fixins”\n \tVegetarian option\n \tSalad\, dessert\, beverages \n\nSchedule\n\n \t10:15 a.m. - Check-in & breakfast\n \t11:00 a.m. - Lecture\n \t12:00 noon - Lunch\n \tAfter Lunch - House Tour\n\nReservations required. $25/person; $20/member. Please submit the Registration Form with your payment.\n\n 
URL:https://www.graemepark.org/event/lunch-learn-health-care-18th-century-style/
LOCATION:859 County Line Road\, Horsham\, PA\, 19044\, United States
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