Diseases during Eighteenth Century

There were so many diseases which became epidemics during the eighteenth century. The most deadly
were smallpox, measles and diphtheria. These diseases killed many people around Europe. Children of all
classes died of simple stuff such as measles and diphtheria. Measles is an infectious disease that can leave
you with permanent damage to eyes or brain, diphtheria is also highly infectious and effects the throat, skin
and other parts. It causes swelling to the neck and can be fatal. Smallpox localizes in small blood vessels of
the skin and in the mouth and throat. During the 18th century those diseases killed an estimated 750,000
Europeans per year

Also cholera which was carried in infected water, yellow flue which was common and killed man people
along with the general Flu and the Black Death that was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history
were common as well.

Environmental Changes during Eighteenth Century

There were such many droughts which devastated the crop, plus the climate got colder and the air began to
be more toxic in the suburbs where factories began to appeared at the end of the eighteenth century.

Inventions, discoveries during Eighteenth Century

1709: The first piano was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori

1714: The Mercury thermometer by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

1736: Europeans discovered rubber

1799: Rosetta stone discovered by Napoleon's troops

In Medicine, doctors based their diagnosis of illness on the ancient beliefs of "humors", bodily "tension", or
other cruder doctrinaire dogmas. The practice of "bleeding" with leeches to cure illness was common
during the 18th century.