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.