Effects Of Science On The Great Awakening

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icholas Culpepper (1648) (Cotton).
The doctors in the colonies did have a small advantage over the housewives and stockmen though. They would take several years to be completely trained and would be an apprentice to another doctor for some time before starting out their own practices. Because these doctors took so long to be fully trained, and had no income during this time, they would need a large amount of money to get started. This made doctors very expensive when they did begin their own practice, and put them way out of reach of the average person financially (Cotton).
One major medical advancement in the 17th century was the re-discovery of the heart. Many cultures in Africa and Asia had at one time discovered the use of the heart and used it in their treatment of wounds, but this knowledge had since been lost because of time, language, and cultural barriers. William Harvey (1578-1657) wrote De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart). It was in this book that he described the function of the heart as a pump to circulate the b...