Sickness, convalescence, childbirth, contagion, and dying were ubiquitous events in colonial North America. Through Harvard Library’s vast manuscript and archival collections that document histories of illness, health, and methods of healing, scholars can trace events no less consequential than the expansion of European settlement, the transition from European to American systems of authority, and the establishment of the United States. In 17th- and 18th-century North America, the medical profession developed in tandem with the founding of the American Republic. Essay by 2016 Arcadia Fellow Theresa McCulla
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