Compare And Contrast Public Health In The 19th Century

You’re sick, you know that much. Your family has sent for a doctor that has come in the form of priest, who proceeds to tell both you and your family that you have fallen ill to the plague because you have sinned. Though you know better, you have lived your, short, life as sin free as anyone could. As the days pass, you become less and less aware of the world around, rarely eating if at all, and constantly tired. Your family has left you to die alone, having instead chosen to escape from the plague in order for no one else to become sick, though you know it is only a matter of time before one of them falls prey to the ravages of the plague that has spread across the country. And soon enough it happens, your eyes close for the last time and your breathing has stopped. You had finally fallen prey to plague ravaging the 17th century.
In order to truly make a comparison between the efforts made to protect public health during the 17th century and the industrial world of the 19th century, we must first compare the differences in medical treatment. We also must look at the differences in how people took care of themselves. To also further the comparison we must also look

During both the 17th and 19th centuries, most countries would close their borders to travelers afraid that many of them would bring the plague with them. They also isolated and quarantined those with the plague in order to try and prevent the spread but unfortunately that wasn’t always the case. During both centuries people that were fleeing other places or countries from the disease often enough brought the disease with them and helped spread it even if they couldn’t make it past a countries borders. For example, when leprosy first became a major problem in the 19th century, the United States actually sent everyone with leprosy to an island where they basically waited to