MAP & DIRECTIONS to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center. Use Route 31 South (Jamestown Road) when traveling to Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne. A section of the Colonial Parkway is closed until Spring 2010.
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(6 p.m. June 15 - August 15)
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Colonial Medicine
In the eighteenth century the state of medical care and theory was undergoing a transition.There was a new understanding of the human body, partly brought on by the discovery of blood circulation, that the body was seen more as a physical system like plumbing or pipes.
Listen to this audio interview with Yorktown Victory Center historian Edward Ayres and Steve Clark of WCVE Community Ideas Station.
Administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia that is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
In the eighteenth century the state of medical care and theory was undergoing a transition.