L. N. Magner, A History of Medicine, New York, 1992.

1) Explain "Social and medical reformers inspired by the Enlightenment belief that it was possible to improve the human condition through the application of reason to social problems turned their attention to public health and preventive medicine".

2) What did the "modern science of nutrition" allow to discover?

3) Is scurvy a contagious disease?

4) Why were boats called "floating hells"?

5) What did Jenner discover?

6) What is cowpox?

7) Why did the Royal Society reject Jenner's paper in 1793?

8) What is the origin of the word "vaccination"?

9) How can immunity be transmitted?

10) What were the methods used for anesthesia? (Give 5 at least...)

11) Who was Mesmer(1734-1815)? What is "mesmerism"? Find a site on the internet where you will see Mesmer's bucket.

12) Who was Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) ?

13) Find out more on Joseph Priestley's (1733-1804) discovery