Cover of Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)

Book 1999

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)

3 readers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Published
1999
  • Anthropology
  • Medicine
  • History - General History
  • Europe
  • Social medicine
  • Europe - General
  • History
  • Social medicine--Europe--History

Of each 1,000 people born, 24 die during birth itself; the business of teething disposes of another 50; in the first two years, convulsions and other illness remove another 277; smallpox... carries off another 80 or 90, and measles 10 more.