1. Medicine in Colonial America
Chamomile was brewed into tea and used for stomach ailments and to ward off colds and aches.... "Colonial doctors believed that when people were ill, it was because their body did not contain a balance in bodily fluids, such as water or blood. ... Colonial physicians had many different ways of eliminating the fluid, such as draining or "letting" blood from the human body. ... At times, these wormlike creatures were placed onto a sick person's body to suck out the "bad" blood....
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