Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
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Mary Seal, the widow of a Dr. Power, for example, administeredmedicine to Richard Dunbar in 1700. The wife of Edward Good was soughtout in 1678 to cure a head sore and another "doctress" impressed theReverend John Clayton, who had some insights into medical sciencehimself, with her ability to cure the bite of a rattlesnake by usingthe drug dittany. In the same year that Good's wife was sought to treatthe head sore, a Mrs. Grendon dispensed medicine to an individual whohad injured his eyes in a ...fight. The exact status of these women, however, is unknown; it is highly unlikely that the female practicingmedicine enjoyed the professional standing of a Dr. Pott or a Dr. Bohun--an old female slave also appears in the record as a doctor.
With medical knowledge limited and antisepsis unknown, the expectantmother of the seventeenth century fared better with a midwife than shewould have with a physician. The midwife, whose training consisted ofexperience and apprenticeship at best, allowed the birth to be as freefrom human interference as possible and did not do a pre-deliveryinfection-producing examination.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Mary Seal, the widow of a Dr. Power, for example, administeredmedicine to Richard Dunbar in 1700. The wife of Edward Good was soughtout in 1678 to cure a head sore and another "doctress" impressed theReverend John Clayton, who had some insights into medical sciencehimself, with her ability to cure the bite of a rattlesnake by usingthe drug dittany. In the same year that Good's wife was sought to treatthe head sore, a Mrs. Grendon dispensed medicine to an individual whohad injured his eyes in a ...fight. The exact status of these women, however, is unknown; it is highly unlikely that the female practicingmedicine enjoyed the professional standing of a Dr. Pott or a Dr. Bohun--an old female slave also appears in the record as a doctor.
With medical knowledge limited and antisepsis unknown, the expectantmother of the seventeenth century fared better with a midwife than shewould have with a physician. The midwife, whose training consisted ofexperience and apprenticeship at best, allowed the birth to be as freefrom human interference as possible and did not do a pre-deliveryinfection-producing examination.
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