The seventeenth century was not doing great work in medicine. Poisons were still regularly administered, bleeding and emesis were common. By the end of the 18th

The seventeenth century was not doing great work in medicine. Poisons were still regularly administered, bleeding and emesis were common. By the end of the 18th century homeopathy was taking over, and the first controlled medical studies were yet to be formed. Aside, there was tons of interesting stuff going on in the rest of the world at that time.