1. Colonial Healthcare
Henry, Azi , Jake, Shimmy, Tifi, Amalia, Julia , Merav, Jacob

3. Apothecary shop
An Apothecary shop sold medicines
and herbal remedies
It has many drawers to keep herbs
and medicine
An apothecary had tools like a
mortar and pestle to grind herbs in
order to make medicine.

5. Herbs
Foxglove... lowers the
heart rate if you had
Scarlet fever
Rosa Mundi ...sore
throats
Chamomile soothes
babies and helps you
sleep
Forget-me-nots..lotion for
eyes

7. Small pox
Starts as blister, then
spreads all over body
Very contagious
Discovered in 1120 by
Variola
Children are
inoculated today

9. Quacks and their Odd
Cures
Quacks were not real
doctors
They made up
medicines and sold
them for money
They used cures like
gun powder, pine
cones and kidney
beans!

11. Childhood illnesses
Children got scarlet
fever, slowed their
heart beat, many of
them died.
Whooping cough
made it hard to
breathe
Poliomyelitis could
hurt the spinal cord

13. Tuberculosis
Bacteria causes
tuberculosis
There was no cure but
nowadays there is are
antibiotics
Sometimes it affects
people's legs
Symptoms: cough, fatigue,
weight loss, fever

15. Medical Care in the
Army
George Washington
had his troops
inoculated against
small pox
Amputation was
common
Women cared for the
sick and injured

17. Thank you for coming to our
Colonial Day booth to learn about
colonial healthcare!