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Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699

by Thomas P. Hughes

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The seasoning sickness that killed most of the early settlers, the surgeons who came with the Company and the ministers and planters’ wives who did the rest, the Indian remedies adopted, the apothecary’s stock and what it cost — and the colony’s first attempts to regulate who could charge for treatment.

How the first English colonists in America were treated, and by whom. Download the free EPUB.

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