American Frontier: The Medicine Ways
Medicine has not always been as advanced as it is today, simpler times also meant simpler medicine. During the late 1700’s, when the land was still not crowded, there was not a great amount of doctors in the world. Many well- known doctors came to be recognized during this time. The amount of people seemed to grow, and with this so did the amount of new illnesses. When it came to medicine, the shots and the antibiotics were not an option, so the majority of the frontier people turned to herbal healing for treatment. American frontier life was best represented by a log cabin. The role of a man was to maintain the farms, set up woodshops, hunt and to make tools, the women usually handled the clothes and prepared the food, and as for the children, well they helped out in any way they could. Most of the time their houses were made out of prairie grass due to the lack of trees, so they called their houses “soddies”(Smith,Throne 1). The winter time was the toughest for the people on the frontier, they quickly put up shelters in hopes of blocking out the cold winds. It got so …show more content…
Low blood pressure was treated as a medical disorder. They also used “spa cures” for a therapy choice. During that time, cultural values often interfered with how the doctors treated their patients. Money was also a big factor of the healthcare system. Back then, they paid the doctors with whatever they had as in fish, handcrafted tools or sometimes, very seldom did this happen, the government would pay (Annas 2). Later in the early 1960’s, drugs for treatment was not taken seriously (Israel 188). As a trial treatment in 1967, doctors injected circulating lymphocytes taken from donors. Only one-fourth of the trial was successful, but they were able to see what had gone wrong. The doctors needed a special machine to be able to separate blood cells but the money wasn't available at the time (Israel
Medicine has not always been as advanced as it is today, simpler times also meant simpler medicine. During the late 1700’s, when the land was still not crowded, there was not a great amount of doctors in the world. Many well- known doctors came to be recognized during this time. The amount of people seemed to grow, and with this so did the amount of new illnesses. When it came to medicine, the shots and the antibiotics were not an option, so the majority of the frontier people turned to herbal healing for treatment. American frontier life was best represented by a log cabin. The role of a man was to maintain the farms, set up woodshops, hunt and to make tools, the women usually handled the clothes and prepared the food, and as for the children, well they helped out in any way they could. Most of the time their houses were made out of prairie grass due to the lack of trees, so they called their houses “soddies”(Smith,Throne 1). The winter time was the toughest for the people on the frontier, they quickly put up shelters in hopes of blocking out the cold winds. It got so …show more content…
Low blood pressure was treated as a medical disorder. They also used “spa cures” for a therapy choice. During that time, cultural values often interfered with how the doctors treated their patients. Money was also a big factor of the healthcare system. Back then, they paid the doctors with whatever they had as in fish, handcrafted tools or sometimes, very seldom did this happen, the government would pay (Annas 2). Later in the early 1960’s, drugs for treatment was not taken seriously (Israel 188). As a trial treatment in 1967, doctors injected circulating lymphocytes taken from donors. Only one-fourth of the trial was successful, but they were able to see what had gone wrong. The doctors needed a special machine to be able to separate blood cells but the money wasn't available at the time (Israel