Week #12

For my blog this week I will be commenting on two presentations that really caught my attention. Those two presentations are Healthcare in Colonial America and Physical & Leisure Activities of Jefferson & Colonial America.

Healthcare in Colonial America

For this presentation, I found it very interesting to find that the life expectancies in 1776 was 33 years old, which I find to be pretty crazy. I couldn't imagine only having 12 years of my life left to live. The life expectancies now is 78 years old, which seems to be a lot more reasonable than 33. I also found it interesting that Thomas Jefferson believed that medicine needs to be unique for each person because he felt that every individual is unique and the illness a person has is unique as well.

Physical & Leisure Activities of Jefferson & Colonial America

I found this topic very interesting to find the differences between how and why people did physical activities in colonial america versus now. In Colonial America people would do physical activities by either working, cleaning, gardening, farming, and landscaping. People back then did it for the joy of it or to get work done around their homes. Where as now we do physical activities because we feel we have to in order to stay healthy. I also found it interesting to learn about different games that were played back in the colonial times that are so similar to the games we play now. Lastly, I found it interesting to learn about Thomas Jefferson favorite physical activities, which were walking and horseback riding.