Early Modern

• Seventeenth Century Britain


  Little improvement in understanding illness
• Common Killer

  "Griping in the guts" or stomach ache, likely appendicitis or ruptured organ
• Impact of the Great Plague


  Started in 1665, similar to the Black Death in devastation
• Great Plague Statistics


  30% of York and 25% of London wiped out
• Lack of Progress

  Outfits of Plague Doctors remained unchanged from previous centuries