4 Results for tag "Medicine"

• Out of Adversity: The Smallpox Census

  Read about the smallpox epidemic that greatly affected the lives of people living in the town of Williamsburg. Learn about this adversity in the 18th century.

• Spanish Influenza in 1918

  In the midst of this social turmoil, the Spanish Flu epidemic was sweeping the country, disrupting everyday life for Martha and thousands of others.

• Researching Spotlight: Finding Dr. PawPaw

  Colonial American South suffered from Yaws, a bacterial disease that transmitted from skin-to-skin contact. Learn about Dr. Pawpaw's remedy to cure Yaws.

• London’s Saint Thomas’s Hospital, A Teaching Hospital for Two Williamsburg Practitioners

  Saint Thomas Hospital in London was a teaching hospital for two Williamsburg practitioners. Learn more about this historical institution of the 18th century.