Sandra Sherman wrote cookbooks (which were very unique at the time if you could read) in the late seventh and eighteenth centuries. Before this time period there wasn’t much step by step cookbooks unless you were a professional chef. The cookbook was revolutionary idea because before that people would have a professional and apprentice learning. 

Food:

Food in the Enlightenment was harder to obtain and different form today.

Dinner:

There was completion between factories for silver and goldsmiths to provide service to courts. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Age_of_Enlightenment 

-Common diseases in the 1700s were smallpox, cowpox, and measles

-Edward Jenner discovered the first ever effective vaccine to cure smallpox. He first tested it on a young boy and a dairymaid. The dairymaid had lesions on her and the young boy was completely fine. Jenner injected matter that he took from the lesions into the boy who didn’t have any disease. The boy felt uneasy for a few days but was fine after. A few months later, when the boy actually got smallpox, Jenner injected fresh matter into the boy and the boy was fine and was immune to smallpox.

-Another type of medicine was created through medical plants. Herbal medicine was practiced throughout Europe. Certain plants were used for specific disorders, while other plants were used to cure multiple diseases. 

-There were also a lot of medical schools throughout Europe, and some even competed for students. Some of the schools were rivals to each other, and they attracted many students from abroad. Medical education was very big in Europe, and there were many teachers teaching various practices like anatomy, homeopathy, etc.

-During the Enlightenment people tried a more scientific approach to medicine and based upon observations, gained an understanding about how certain parts of the body functions. This led to multiple theories and more experimentation. 

-Prescriptions were often lengthy and had a large quantity of dosage. Samuel Hahnmann or the founder of homeopathy developed minute doses that had positive effects in the relation to the disease being treated. Hahnmann came upon this concept after translating a work written by William Cullen in 1796. 

-People studied characteristics and methods of Chinese medicine(such as the use of plants) and developed a risk signal mining technique. They based the safety of medicine off of adverse reactions from the patients treated, and from there developed more methods for cures. 

-The life expectancy of people during the Enlightenment was low for the time period. Most people only made it up to their forties and babies were known to die at birth itself. 

-Medicine was desirable but attainable to a sizable population. Most people used plant remedies in order to cure illness or infections. Wives often took the role of healers in a population. 

Websites: 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26281610/ 

http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10054.pdf 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264274952_Medicine_in_the_Age_of_Enlightenment 

 
https://www.britannica.com/science/history-of-medicine/Medicine-in-the-18th-century 

https://eurohistorymed.weebly.com/1700s.html 

- Men would wear three-piece wool or silk suits. These suits would change by the detail of the cut over time.

- The most expensive textiles would have been the brocaded silk since it was hand woven. Plain wool was the least expensive and the striped silk was in between the two.

- The panier, which was the hoop-petticoat, became the backbone of all the shapes of women’s dresses that would appear throughout the century.

- The main form of dress for women in the beginnings of the 1700s was the mantua. The mantua is the gown worn over the petticoat. It was introduced around the 1670s and stayed the main form of dressing for a while.

- Menswear remained similar throughout the years. They generally wore black leather shoes that had high heels and square toes. However, men would wear red heels at the French court.

- Children would wear clothes similar to the clothes from the previous century. Children would wear what people would call “short clothes.” These clothes allowed the children to have more mobility. Boy would start wearing menswear once the went through “breeching” which was their entrance into manhood. Girls would start wearing adult dresses when they entered their early teens.

https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1700-1709/