Your Ancestor's Health Issues: Part 2
Maureen sent a handout which included links to various websites that provide information about diseases, epidemics, early medical lingo,
http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/genhelp/diseases.aspx
Some medical terms used in old records.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maggieoh/epd.html
A chronological list of epidemics, including the year and location.
50 cities are included--you can read about the 1918 flu in those cities.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Legacy Family Tree Webinar: A Recipe for Well-Being: Health and Illness in Colonial
New England. Peters, LL
Patent Remedies, Herb, Gardens and Pharmacopeias: Norris DA, Your Genealogy, Feb
2021, p 31-35.
Nostrums and Quackery, (Compilation of articles from American Medical
Association) available on line at HATHI TRUST.
Medicine in the Americas 1610-1920, digital collection online at the US National
Library of Medicine
Beeton, I, Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management. 1907 Edition, digitized at
archive.org
Every Man His Own Doctor or the Poor Planter’s Physician, 1751. published
anonymously
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