ALL MUST ANSWER QUESTION #3!
1. The natural sciences in the colonies advanced the science in medicine in Europe. Discuss.
2. Also discuss the "Jamestown Weed."
3. Discuss your favorite remedy by a a colonial doctor.
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1: Physicians who were European studied and came to america were put in a whole new place with new plants and new materials to work with. Because of this they were able to make advances in Botony which they could take back to Europe for uses there. The doctors who came to America discovered new means of doing things that would help people not only in America but also in Europe.
2: Jamestown weed was a sedative which would be used as a narcotic and was known for being able to cool down ones body, but this plant also had its down side for being poisionous if someone took a dose too large.
3: My favorite remedy by colonial doctors was the Rattle snake bite treatment. I love that the reasoning behind this treatment was that where rattle snakes lived there was a remedy nearby. Just out of luck the "rattkesnake root" was found in that same area. The name of this remedy plant is so original and unique but does do the job. Because other remedies were found in the same areas as the desieses they believed this to be the same for rattle snakes, but little dod the colonial doctors know that rattle snakes arent the only snakes that are poisionous, and rattle snakes are foundin more than one place. c
1. Research by American botanists and other natural historians led to European cataloguing of American plants and plant-borne remedies through correspondence. American scientists would gather plants in America, record their traits, and send letters to England discussing these plants and their medicinal properties. These ideas then translated into medical research by English physicians. One example of this correspondence was between Alexander Garden and Linnaeus of England. In fact, his letters to Linnaeus were so extensive and contributive, that his findings represented a significant portion of Linnaeus' Sytema Naturae.
2. Jamestown Weed was the Tylenol of the 17th Century. Its sedative properties and cooling effect allowed it to reduce pain, inflammation, and many other symptoms of common sicknesses. It was very much like Tylenol, in fact. The only downside was the possibility of addiction, and even death, but what would America be without the possibility of death?
3. I like the self-named tooth ache tree, which received its name for its ability to relieve toothaches.
1. It was in the colonies where many advances for Europe were made. Because natural history was emphasized more in America, faster advances could be made because of the increase in research. Also, because of all the new and dfifferent plants in America, Europeans that came to research found an unlimited amount of new knowledge. For instance, tobacco was a new plant that was thought to have many medical remedies. Not only did the new plants help Europe, the American physicians served as examples as well. By being seperated from England, they were aso away from pointless debates about medicine(bleeeding, etc.)
2. The "Jamestown Weed" was a natural source for a pain reliever in the colonies. This weed was known to be "cooling", but was only sucessful in small doses. When taken in large doses, a "seditive" turned poisonous.
3. My favorite remedy would have to be the "natural" one that was started in Massachusetts. This was a perscription for fresh air, rest, and massage! What could be better than that? Also, this remedy is something that the modern world could definately learn from. In our age, we seem to have become dependent upon vaccines and advil, when we don't really need it.
1. Botanists from Europe treked to the New World to begin the rigmarole of identifying the new plants. The botanists returned to Europe with sample of the plants, which medical scientists claimed. The plants in the colonies were the hosts for a huge mediacal experimentaltion project in Europe, which resulted in the creation of new drugs which could help people everywhere.
2. Jamestown weed had the same effect as ibuprofen to a person in pain or with a high fever, but like anything good, too much is bad for you.
3. My fav treatment was the "swallowing of leaden bullets" which was said to cure distmeper or "The Twisting of the Gut"
1. Since the colonies were fairly new, the studies of medicine in America had a much larger emphasis on natural medicines due to the lack of experience from the doctors. This led to the large study of botany and biology in the colonies to find the "herbals" fit to treat different ailments. As a whole, the colonies had a much smaller mortality rate than Europe. This drove European physicians to go to America and partake in the new discoveries.
2. Jamestown Weed was a natural remedy most commonly used as a pain killer, Its main purpose was to "cool" down the body, but when taken in large amounts it could be poisonous just like every other drug.
3. My favorite remedy in the colonies was the smoking of tobacco. It was claimed to be able to heal virtually any problem. For example, it could heal grout and ague. It could even cure hangovers. The most amazing part is that it could reduce fatigue and hunger which is interesting because many people nowadays smoke cigarettes so they wont feel hungry.
2. The "Jamestown Weed," or tobacco, was a novel plant to the Americans. Not found in the Old World, the tobacco plant was discovered around Jamestown and used for medical purposes. Since the medical supplies brought over from England were being quickly used up to cure the many that were falling ill to the New World diseases, colonial doctors were in search of new remedies. Although physical sciences did not advance in the New World, there became a great interest in botany and medicine. With this new interest in local plants and the dire need for medicine, tobacco was the first in a series of discoveries. Through medical based trials, it was discovered that tobacco could heal gout and ague, cure hangovers, reduce fatigue and hunger, and had a cooling effect that added to its new found success in improving the health of its patients.
3. Since the America had taken a great interest in finding local remedies to cure their patients, colonial doctors used nature to heal the sick. My favorite remedy was the simple "tooth ache tree." Instead of using "germ-ridden" hands and instruments, doctors used this plant to treat the common tooth ache. This remedy, known only to the New World, treated the patient through a sort of aroma therapy with its orange scented seeds and bark.
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Physical sciences advanced due to a necessity. In the 18th century, “herbals” were most commonly used. The physicians that came from Europe were in a whole new surrounding full of unknown “herbs” that they could study and could add to their medical knowledge. These studies helped physicians gain more medical knowledge and expand the medicines that were available to them, such as when Dr Lawrence Bohun discovered that “gum of a white popular would heal any green wound.” (pg 210) The advancements in America made with studies of medicine would not only help America, but Europe too. Because of the research that was completed in the Americas, medical advancements were made and shared by letter with Europe.
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“Jamestown Weed” was used as an aspirin, a pain reliever. Working in small doses, both sedative and antispasmodic, it was effective. If taken in large doses, it was poisonous. The Jamestown weed was said to have a “cooling” effect and was praised for it.
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My favorite remedy by a colonial doctor was how Virginians had to provide medical care for themselves. When William Byrd had a toothache, he pulled it out using a string tied to a log. This would be effective to get rid of a painful tooth, but uneffective if there was an infection. The remedy also reminds me of something that still exists today: when a child has a loose tooth, they sometimes tie a string to it and a door knob and close the door, yanking the tooth out.
3. I thought that the remedy that involved bleeding people untill they become "relaxed" was my favorite remedy. It is really hard to believe that a doctor would actually be stupid enough to even think the patient was actually relaxed, and curing them of tension.
1. One such example that advanced the science of medicine in Europe was the discovery of new plants in America that could be used for remedies. European botanist found plants that could be used for medicinal purposes.
2. Jamestown Weed was used to cure hangovers, and reduce fatigue and hunger. However, it turned out to be a sedative, and could be poisonous if taken in large doses. This shows that most of the remedies that were discovered in America usually turned out to do something very different then intended.
3. My favorite remedy was bleeding. Especially since there proof that bleeding worked to calm the patient was by letting them bleed long enough. Of course they would become ‘relaxed’ because there heart would slow down because there is less blood to pump.
1. The novelties of botanical life in the New World provided European-trained doctors with a whole new means of finding medicinal cures. New discoveries of American plants, formerly unknown in the Old World, provided cures not only for illness in the colonies, but added medical knowledge to the arsenals of Europe.
2. Jamestown Weed was a plant which was revered for its pain-relieving and cooling properties. Modern studies, however, have shown it to be a sedative in small doses, and even narcotic in larger doses leading to death, which, assumably occurred in the unlearned American colonies.
3. I believe the ministers of Massachusetts to have the best colonial remedy of prescribing “rest, fresh air, and massage.” They believed in letting “Nature to do her own work, requiring nothing of the Physician.” In modern day anxieties of illness and diseases overwhelmingly permeated by vaccines and anti-bacterial remedies resulting in resistant strains, a look back to the natural past would do a lot of good.
1. The natural sciences from the colonies advanced the study of medicine in Europe. The New World had new plants, new animals, and new climates. Medicine was not developed as a field, and only herbal remedies were available. New plants meant new remedies. These new remedies were then added to medical practices.
2. Physicians often used potentially harmful plants in their New World remedies. One such plant was the "Jamestown Weed." This weed, in small doses, was a sedative. However, in large doses this plant is a narcotic and is poisonous. This is just one example of the dangers of medicine in the colonial era.
3. My favorite remedy used by a colonial doctor is the treatment given by most ministers. This was a completely new and revolutionary diagnosis for this time. It was rest, fresh air, and maybe massage. This idea was revolutionary because doctors in Europe were doing very harmful things like bleeding, which more often killed the patient than cured them. Thank God this new treatment of rest and relaxation was discovered, otherwise who knows what would be prescribed today for the common cold.
1. During this time, the study of botany and medicine were very closely linked because many remedies involved some type of plant. In Europe, it was much harder to find new plants or new uses for already discovered plants because doctors and scientists had already been researching the subject for years, whereas in America, the land abounded with new discoveries. While the Americans were busy making these discoveries, Europeans used the new plants in the botanical classification systems they were busy creating.
2. The “Jamestown Weed” is a nickname for tobacco which comes from the fact that so much of it grew around the area of the Jamestown Colony. This plant had a reputation of curing “many greevous diseases” at the time, such as hunger and hangovers; we now know that it is simply a sedative in small doses, but it can be very harmful in larger ones.
3. I am not sure if this qualifies as a remedy by a colonial doctor, but it is definitely a remedy performed in the absence of a colonial doctor. I am referring to when William Byrd pulled out his tooth when he tied a string to a log and “capered about.” (By the way, I looked up the definition of “caper,” and it means “to leap about in a gay frolicsome way,” which puts a pretty funny image into my head.)
2. "Jamestown Weed" was supposed to "purgeth superflous fleame & other grosse humors, openeth all the opres & passages of the body". It would help people and take away their pain. I find it funny that it cures hangovers, but by doing that it gets the person high.
3. My favorite remedy was the one that involved a paste...of woodlice.
~Chris Sogge~ :)
2. Jamestown weed- tobacco- was used often to cure what ails you. Tobacco was used for nearly everything, from gout to hangovers, fatigue to ague, from pore opening to reduction of phlegm. It was the general cure-all. Of course, now we know that tobacco is a sedative that can cause the "calming" effects. The "calming" is produced by the components of the tobacco affecting the body's circulation and nervous system but the colonists didn't know that.
3. My favorite "remedy" would have to be swallowing a leaden bullet for the "twisting of the gut," which I take to be a stomach ache or other digestive tract problem. I suppose if they didn't have Pepto Bismol the next beat thing is a lead bullet in your stomach...
1.) When European scientists and physicians moved to the new world, they experienced an abundance of new plants and animals. These new species would become important to both America and Europe, because scientists and physicians were able to use these new materials and create new medicines and remidies, which were then incorporated into American and European medicines.
2.) The jamestown weed was a weed used by American doctors as a sedative for their patients. However, if too high of a dose was taken the weed could be poisonous to the patient.
3.) My favorite colonial remedy was the simple remedy of bleeding the patient. The bleeding was supposed to relax and calm the patient, which it did. Side effects may include dizziness, fainting and death by blood loss. Worth it.
3. MY favorite rermedy that the colonial doctors didn't really prescribe, but they agreed with was that smoking tobacco was actually healthy. They said it could increase your life expectancy.
2) The Jamestown Weed, also known scientifically as datura stramonium was used as a remedy to acute illness and pain in colonial Jamestown. When taken in small amounts, it usually serves its purpose as a pain killer. But when overdosed, it can cause severe hallucinations and can even be poisonous.
3) I particularly enjoyed the prescription by Boston doctors that said swallowing lead bullets could cure “that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts.” One would only think that could worsen any condition it was prescribed for, and I like how the doctor said “he should endure abundant, before I tried such a remedy.” Of course this was after the lead had gotten in one of his patient’s lungs…
1..Many advances for Europe were made on visits to America. Being surrounded by new plants provided them with materials to create new remedues which were never known to Europe prior to the visits. new knowledge brought back to Europe provided new advances.
2..Jamestown weed was used to calm a person in pain. It was however only effective in small doses, over eccessive use could be incredibly poisonous to the human body.
3..My favorite remedy was the one that prescribed rest fresh air and massage, this is something that any sick human body could find as usefull. Many times the body becomes too run down and rest is all it needs, who is to say that fresh air and massage wouldnt also do some good?
1. European scientist came over to the colonies in order to study the new plants and animals, which provided scientific advances that could not be achieved using european flora and fauna alone.
2. The "Jamestown Weed" was a narcotic substance extracted from a local plant, Datura Stramonium, that was used as a sedative in medical situations. However, the substance can be poisonous, so, a set dose works as a sedative, double the dose as a hallucinogen, and triple the dose as a lethal neurotoxin.
3.My favorite colonial treatment was the swallowing of a toxic lead bullet in order to make the patients stomach stop churning.
2. One thing that attracted many Europeans over to America was the vast amount of unknown plants that could serve a new insight into botanical discoveries. In Jamestown in particular, the “Jamestown Weed” or tobacco was of great interest because it was said to, “heal gout and ague, cure hangovers, and reduce fatigue and hunger.” There were several accounts of tobacco also causing the body to open up which helped preserve it from any “obstructions,” and of it having just a general “cooling” effect. (However, interesting to note is that in large doses it becomes narcotic and a poison to the body which the European had little clue of at the time)
3. My favorite remedy used by colonial doctors would have to be the advisement to swallow a lead bullet to cure a stomach ache. I don’t really get how that was supposed to calm down the “Twisting of the Guts,” but, I did find it hilarious that there were cases of the prescription entering the lung of one of the patients. It seemed that that remedy was a lot more trouble than it was worth.
3. my favorite remedy has to be the massage one: natural, soothing, and not crazy, sounds like it could actually work.
Chapter 34
1. In the colonies natural sciences became more advanced than that of
England because America had so many resources to learn from in its grasp. In botany alone numerous scientific contributions were made in finding medicinal cures and therapeutic healing methods.
2. The Jamestown Weed (datura stramonium)was found to be a sedative, antispasmodic, and narcotic. It was also known however to be poisonous in large quantities.
3. My favorite remedy was the “Tooth Ache Tree”. The leaves smelled like orange and its seeds and bark served as a hot astringent that relieved tooth aches.
Taylor Oster 2009
1. Common medicines in the Old World were botanical in nature, derived from plants. Therefore, the connection between pharmacy and botany was evident. When faced with the vast quantities and varieties of plants yet unidentified, untested and unknown, physicians and botanists alike (sometimes both in one being)leapt at the opportunity to study them. The newly discovered plants were often turned into medicine or were found to be useful in a medical application.
2. The Jamestown weed was discovered by the Jamestown colony alongside sassafras and tobacco and used as a sedative, praised for its "cooling effect". In modern day medicine it is, in small doses, an effective sedative and antispasmodic, but addictive and poisonous in large doses.
3. My favorite has to be the following: "As soon as this disease therefore appears by its signs, let the sick abstein from Flesh and Wine, and open Air, and let him use small Bear warmed with a Tost for his ordinary drink, and moderately when he desires it..." Probably because I'm taking it very literally, that the poor patient must drink a bear warmed with a...toast?
1. Due to plant life which were not in the Old World, but were either in abundant or at least somewhat plentiful supply in the New World led to the cataloging of these plants, which in turn led to natural cures, and the discovery of plausible synthetic cures to ailments which had been around in the Old World for long periods.
2. “Jamestown weed,” was a narcotic, with calming and sedating qualities, which led it to be used for medicinal as well as personal use, the latter perhaps due to addictions formed by the former.
3. My favorite remedy would have to be swallowing lead bullets to cure digestive issues. Perhaps I find this the most amazing because I have provided this cure for both David Ganey and Roy Koehmstedt many times whilst playing Team Fortress 2… Though David might disagree.
1. The natural sciences in the colonies advanced the science in medicine in Europe. Discuss.
This is primarily so because of the many new species of plants that were found in the New World which were not present for the Europeans to utilize at home, and thus they had more to work with.
2. Also discuss the "Jamestown Weed."
The Jamestown Weed (also called augushka, jimson weed, dich weed, etc.) otherwise known as Datura Stramonium is a plant that contains tropane alkaloids that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen and was used by the Navajo as a sleep aid and was used to drug British soldiers during Bacon’s Rebellion.
3. Discuss your favorite remedy by a colonial doctor.
The use of chalk for heartburn. I had never known this before and it leaves me wondering what sort of chalk was used and how it was used.
1. The newfound wealth of undiscovered plants that America contained helped to advance European medicine, because at that time medicines were largely based on botany. Physicians gained fame for the number of plants they had discovered, and as colonists went out and collected samples of new plants, European doctors eagerly collected analyzed the new species.
2. The Jamestown Weed referred to tobacco, which was at the time thought to be a beneficial medicine, contrary to what medicine now has proven. It was believed to be a cure for tiredness, hunger, gout, hangovers, and more, and was an example of a botanical discovery that thrilled Europe.
3. My favorite remedy comes from Benjamin Rush, who had faith in bleeding as a cure, and pointed to the fact that if a patient bled enough, they would relax at some point or another. This is undeniably true -- take enough of someone’s blood, and eventually all their other problems will be of the least concern!
2. Jamestown weed was pretty much a modern day pain killer. It would cool the body, but if one were to overdose it would become poisones.
3. The paste made from wood lice that was to cure an upset stolmach sounds very nice. :)
1. The natural sciences in the colonies advanced the science in medicine in Europe. Discuss.
The colonies in the New World were able to advance the science of medicine in the Old World because, hence the name, the New World possessed new plants and herbs that had never been tried as remedies before.
2. Also discuss the "Jamestown Weed."
We now know that “Jamestown Weed” functions as a sedative in small doses, but is dangerous in larger ones. The colonists at the time didn’t know this—they used the tobacco product quite often, despite the danger it possessed.
3. Discuss your favorite remedy by a colonial doctor.
My favorite remedy is the ridiculous idea that swallowing a lead bullet would help cure intestinal and digestive ailments. Seems a little counterintuitive to me, but what do I know? I’m not a gastroenterologist.
On another note, Shane, shut up. I do not swallow your bullets—in fact, I DOMINATE YOU at that game.
1. Natural sciences in the colonies advanced the science in medicine in Europe. Discuss.
The NEw world advanced midicine in Europe because there were a great amount of new plants that were found. Then they were test as use for newer and better medicines.
2. Also discuss the "Jamestown Weed."
The James town weed is basically a pain killer. What it did was make the body cool down (relax). The only problem with this weed is the fact that it was not good for the human body in larger quantaties.
3. Disscuss your favorite remedy by a colonial docter.
My favorite remedy was swalloing the lead bullet.
3. Discuss your favorite remedy by a a colonial doctor.
My favorite remedy was the “Tooth-Ache tree.” In the colonies, there was a type of tree that had a great scent like that of an orange and was very “hot and astringent” that was said to cure tooth-aches. I just found this pretty funny that of all the sicknesses and pains, they had a useful method for curing toothaches.
2. Also discuss the "Jamestown Weed."
The "Jamestown Weed" was a plant that grew in Jamestown and was used as a sedative. However, it was also poisonous if taken in high doses.
3. Discuss your favorite remedy by a colonial doctor.
I'm not sure if this is a remedy exactly, but I think it is really terrible that they believed tobacco to be a plant with a lot of healing powers that would eventually prevent you from getting sick at all.
Mira Schlosberg
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