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Title: Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699

Author: Thomas P. Hughes

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MEDICINE IN VIRGINIA, 1607-1699

By

THOMAS P. HUGHES

Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University

VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CORPORATION
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
1957

COPYRIGHT(C), 1957 BY
VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

Second Printing, 1958

Third Printing, 1963

Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet, Number 21

[Transcriber's Notes: Research indicates the copyright on this book was
not renewed.

The Table of Contents was not printed in the original text but has been
added here for the convenience of the reader.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE
European Background and Indian Counterpart to Virginia Medicine 1

CHAPTER TWO
Disease and The Critical Years At Jamestown 12

CHAPTER THREE
Prevalent Ills and Common Treatments 31

CHAPTER FOUR
Education, Women, Churchmen, and The Law 60

CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion 73

Acknowledgements and Bibliographical Note 77

CHAPTER ONE

European Background and Indian Counterpart to Virginia Medicine

EUROPEAN BACKGROUND

The origins of medical theory and practice in this nation extend
further than the settlement at Jamestown in 1607. Jamestown was a seed
carried from the Old World and planted in the New; medicine was one of
the European characteristics transmitted with the seed across the
Atlantic. In the process of transmission changes took place, and in the
New World medicine adapted itself to some circumstances unknown to
Europe; but the contact with European developments in theory and
practice was never--and is not