People Living In The 1840s

America, a great and powerful nation consisting of all of the tremendous people and groups that make it what it is today. Of course the main perspective when talking about America is its history. Even though our nation is still young, there has been much adversity. Including, the great depression, economic issues, slavery. Throughout all of the pain and all of the suffering we are still here to say that we fight hard and we defy all expectations. One period of time that is greatly underestimated, would be the 1840s. You see, in this time many people had to fight poverty and diseases to an extent where living in the 1840s was egregious. Indeed, the 1840’s was a busy time; but nobody ever considers all of the millions of people living in the …show more content…
Things like, dysentery, malaria, and typhoid fever were very popular at this time. Once people kept experiencing weird symptoms and problems that were later identified as the given disease, people started to realize something was very wrong. Many societies directed their disease troubles to their religions. Some believed that it was directly correlated to the fact that you had to refine yourself, thus letting you completely cleanse out the part of you that is infected with any given disease. When looking at the statistics, an average white male had a life expectancy of about 43 years. Compared to modern day society, if there is such a big margin between the life spans of these people, then it really portrays how limited there resources were. And judging by this, a big percentage of these short lives should be partly because of the poor disease prevention in the 1840s. Of course, many theories were placed on the table regarding how to deal with it, but the knowledge and research was too small for them to find a cure. Ultimately, if you were living in this time period then you really did have “the hard knock life.” Therefore, if you were to really analyze this, you can tell that even with all of the misfortunes many rural communities still felt determined and committed to fighting off these diseases, as directing it to their religions showed their strength as well …show more content…
Until the early 1900s medicine and disease prevention couldn’t even we interpreted by even the best doctors. You needed real research and evidence, as well as proper research to properly understand what was in fact going on. Many theories were brought up as to why and how they would be able to deal with the diseases. Cell theory, which was only conjured up in the early 1700s by a man named “ Robert Hooke” was still being questioned even 100 years after its first creation. Not much was said about the theory, and it didn’t really help the poor families living in the 1800s but it was basically composed of the concept that all living things are composed of cells, and they are the basic unit of structure. Throughout the years, advancement and understanding of this theory improved the amount of casualties that took place in this time period. People felt more comfortable now that they finally had a better understanding of what it is inside of them. This was in fact an important theory, because many of the diseases involved some sort of cell dysfunction. It demonstrated that the changes in cells could potentially give someone cancer. It is still considered to be so vital in the improvement of modern medicine. Another theory would be, the germ theory. This theory stated that many of the worst diseases at the time