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All societies posses’ medical beliefs: ideas of life and death, disease and cure, and systems of healing which have changed drastically throughout time. With the advances of technology throughout the years medical advances have become very possible and in fact very common in today’s world. ... Those young colonials interested in medicine turned first to the European and British medical schools; then, as a consciousness of American nationality began to develop and American communities became large enough to support medical institutions, hospitals, and medical schools made their appearance . By the time of the Revolution one hospital and two medical schools were firmly established, a number of local medical societies were functioning, and several colonies had enacted medical licensure laws.
The eighteenth century became preeminently an age of medical theorizing in which the proponents of vitalism, solidism, tonism, and tension vied with one another. ... Boerhaave who was an electric willing to borrow from any system, had some impact on American medical practice. ... As time went on, the hospital became more and more the preferred center for medical research. ... These physicians, known as the “regulars”, represented the best of the four main categories of medical practitioners. ... The regulars achieved this status by a combination of formal preparation, ethical conduct, and demonstrated success in medical practice. Physicians with medical degrees from British or European universities ordinarily were accepted without question. ... Despite the new medical sciences, the new instruments and the beginnings of preventative medicine, the actual way in which doctors treated patients remained much as it had been in the previous centuries. ... Throughout Franklin’s career he asked for and gave medical advice. ... During the course of a long career, Franklin observed and commented upon a wide range of medical topics.
Approximate Word count = 1422
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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