Colonial HealthcareHenry, Azi , Jake, Shimmy, Tifi, Amalia, Julia , Merav, Jacob

Apothecary shopAn Apothecary shop sold medicines and herbal remedies

It has many drawers to keep herbs and medicine

An apothecary had tools like a mortar and pestle to grind herbs in order to make medicine.

HerbsFoxglove... lowers the heart rate if you had Scarlet fever

Rosa Mundi ...sore throats

Chamomile soothes babies and helps you sleep

Forget-me-nots..lotion for eyes

Small pox

Starts as blister, then spreads all over body

Very contagious

Discovered in 1120 by Variola

Children are inoculated today

Quacks and their Odd Cures

Quacks were not real doctors

They made up medicines and sold them for money

They used cures like gun powder, pine cones and kidney beans!

Childhood illnesses Children got scarlet fever, slowed their heart beat, many of them died.

Whooping cough made it hard to breathe

Poliomyelitis could hurt the spinal cord

TuberculosisBacteria causes tuberculosis

There was no cure but nowadays there is are antibiotics

Sometimes it affects people's legs

Symptoms: cough, fatigue, weight loss, fever

Medical Care in the Army

George Washington had his troops inoculated against small pox

Amputation was common

Women cared for the sick and injured

Thank you for coming to our Colonial Day booth to learn about

colonial healthcare!