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Dear Abby Advice Column Chris Waters
Abby On: Medical Care
Dear Abby; my husband is very sick and noting I am doing is seems to help. Should I take him to
the hospital or to the village healer? I¶m so torn because the hospitals seem so unsafe; however
the village healers are condemned for witch craft.
Dear scared and confused, I love that you asked this, it¶s a very good question and I hope
that my response will help other families who are having similar issues with making this
decision. Doctors are trained professionals, who have studied rigorously to understand how the
person¶s body works, however many parents do not usually like to go to the local hospital due to
fear of new aliments and the poor sanitation of the places. While a apothecary¶s methods may be
medieval in comparison to them they are time tested. This controversy is more or less a matter
of what you feel more comfortable doing, the old practices are starting to become condemned by
modern science which is however new and not well tested. In my opinion the Medical
advancements are not quite safe enough yet to be used for the flu or other sickness. Go to the
local healer and ask how they would fix the problem.
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Dear Abby On: Diet
Dear Abby: with all the new food that has arrived from the new world people are eating all sorts
of things now, however the rich are still eating all the meat and it does not seem fair. My family
has little money can you help us with our diet?
Yes the rich do get to eat much venison and pork and other meats but in my opinion too
much of once thing cannot be all that good for you. You say that you are poor and are not able to
afford the food of the wealthy; well I don¶t think that you need it. Most farmers have what I think
is a better diet than that of the wealthy. There is nothing to back this but most agrarian people are
very strong and hearty. I think it is due to their wide range of vegetable¶s and other things that
they eat. I will tell you a secret, I love potatoes! Yes, take no shame in eating potatoes even
though society has branded them as the food of the devil I find that it can be a filling supplement
to soups and can be eaten many ways and can grow almost any wear. So my answer is that you
should have the most variety in your diet as possible. Stay away from sugar, something that
sweet and good cannot possibly be good.
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Dear Abby On: Schools
Dear Abby; my eldest child is now old enough to go to school or start working, my husband
thinks he should learn a trade but I want him to get an education.
These are progressive times dear, more and more people are starting to become literate in
this new ³Age of Enlightenment´. The nobility and the wealthy middle class are not the only
ones to become educated now. Leaps and bounds are starting to be taken in the form of public
education for children. In the country of Prussia they are trying to compete with other nations so
they have made it that primary school is now compulsory. The newest generation of Prussia is
going to be better educated and will become a new wave of elite children. It is better that the rest
of us do not fall behind, send your child to school. They will have time to work on the farm and
get some trade skills once they learn their basic arithmetic, so tell that husband of yours that your
children are going to have a better life if they are sent to school for a few harvests not working in
the fields. With there being a wide range of reading materials the newly literate will be able to
learn many new things from what they read, this age of enlightenment nothing more than a
revolution in thinking.
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An Over View of the Enlightenment
The eighteen hundreds are an age of advancement that has not been seen for hundreds of
years, with the new Baconioan method of thinking. The world mysteries are being deduced from
propr experience and intuition, which in turn is put into journal¶s and newspapers which the
common person in able to read. With the literacy rates staring to sky rocket people are able to
become exposed to new ways of thinking. Many people say that the enlightenment was sparked
by the protestant reform, causing people to question things and creating more individuals in
society.
These newly educated people are starting to create a name for themselves as they go out
and postulate not only changes in ways that things should be perceived but some of the things
have real world repercussions. Using a form a trial and error one man created a vaccine for small
pox using the cow pox¶s, he did this by taking the ideas from a man named Francis Bacon who
published several books explain how deductive reasoning works and how to use it to solves
every day occurrences. In Bacons journals he wrote how to take a hypothesis and test it, and
that¶s just what that one man did and he found the cure for small pox.
Child care up till this point had been a cycle of neglect leading to disease or malnutrition
which causes the death of the child, reinforcing the social dogma that one should not become
emotionaly bonded to a child until they had reached a proper age. However the philosopher
Rousseau, with his new journals discussing the new approach to child rearing being to nurture
them, this created a new wave of support for this method and caused the mortality rate to drop
slightly as parents began to take better care of their children.
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In this several hundred year time period there are several revolutions, agricultural,
religious and lastly Social. The Social revolution is the Enlightenment where education becomes
more wide spread and new ideas begin to flow through the general public and it is debated in the
local coffee shops and tea houses.