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TSI Reading: Hoping European Doctors Were Good at Making Inferences 17 Views


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This passage implies that European medical practice in the early 1700s was

(A)surprisingly safe
(B)largely experimental
(C)based on Indian and Chinese practices
(D)conflicted by religious beliefs


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All right see reading shmoop er's Ah very enlightening and

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uplifting passage for you Here let's go to the question

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This passage implies that european medical practice in the early

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seventeen hundreds was what No she's interesting lives any speckled

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monster smallpox personally with the annihilation of billions of years

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There's something i really like it plus or scattered like

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the one from some of my old cases recitations prime

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introduced disease matter locked up in a mild cases makes

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a few possibles for community relations for such cases flared

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up and so well with frida agonize over family All

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right well doctors in the eighteenth century didn't really know

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what to do about smallpox so they relied on medieval

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eastern practices and cross their fingers and probably prayed a

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lot that they wouldn't accidentally kill their patients Sounds like

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a great idea doesn't it Yeah sign me up for

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that So yeah it was largely experiment only and should

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be there Loser ball Well inoculation often backfired Kill the

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patients it was meant to protect It wasn't altogether safe

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practice by any means The tech states outright That inoculation

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was based on the indian chinese practice but doesn't mean

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that all european medicine and came from the east you

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know like drone manufacturing today Finally that pastor doesn't go

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into religious police at all So we assume you have

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a lot of prayers Were flying around All right whatever

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The answer is b and be thankful you got inoculated

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for this thing was bad Bad way to go smallpox

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