What happens if you were sick in colonial times?

Most sick people turned to local healers, and used folk remedies. Others relied upon the minister-physicians, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and ministers; a few used colonial physicians trained either in Britain, or an apprenticeship in the colonies. One common treatment was blood letting.

What diseases did the colonies have?

Dysentery was the number two killer of colonists. The next most fatal illnesses were the respiratory complaints: influenza, pneumonia, pleurisy, and colds. After that, the ranking would be small pox, yellow fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, mumps, typhus, and typhoid fever.

What was disease 1700?

In the 1700s, worldwide eruptions of smallpox threatened the lives of multitudes, although other epidemics such as cholera, yellow fever, plague, and influenza played havoc as well. Boston was in the crosshairs of smallpox on several occasions, but also became a place that helped leading the way out of the darkness.

Was there a plague in 1732?

Indeed, there was a major yellow fever epidemic in Charles Town, New York and Philadelphia in 1732, one in Norfolk, Virginia in 1737 and another one in Charles Town in 1739. Typically about 85% of individuals infected with yellow fever have a mild disease course.

What is the deadliest pandemic in history?

Here’s how five of the world’s worst pandemics finally ended.

Plague of Justinian—No One Left to Die.
Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine.
The Great Plague of London—Sealing Up the Sick.
Smallpox—A European Disease Ravages the New World.
Cholera—A Victory for Public Health Research.
5 Advances That Followed Pandemics.

Do all pandemics end?

Given that the virus has spread almost everywhere in the world, though, such measures alone can’t bring the pandemic to an end. Even if the pandemic is curbed in one part of the world, it will likely continue in other places, causing infections elsewhere.