Family History and Daily Life
The family Rochat has lived in and around since it’s inception. I come from Lourd Rochat, my father, who has lived in this community all his life and was a prominent figure in the politics of this city. He was the most well known physician in all of Geneva and people came from very long ways away to be treated by him. He wasn’t the only physician, but he was among the best. I, Léger Rochat am one of the city’s foremost doctors. Me, my wife and three children all live in a squat, small stone building. We have very little in the way of possessions, but we make due with what we do have. My day starts early, when I get up at sunrise to go see the first patient of the day. A vast majority of my patients are the wealthy nobles, due to the high cost of treating people. Sometimes, a peasant will have enough saved money to tell them
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what is wrong, but they rarely have enough for treatment. Some types of treatment are bloodletting or placing leeches.If it is very sever, I may amputate the affected limb or area. Then I go home and eat then do it again. If I have free time, I read classic books or I go to church and pray.One of the biggest problem’s in my life is taking care of my family and children, especially with money. Family Life My family, my wife, two daughters and my son, all have important things to do while I am away at work. My wife schools my daughters and my son goes away to apprentice with a different physician or with me, like I did. If one of my daughters doesn’t marry, many people would hate her and our family due to this time’s gender roles and attitudes. We all go to church weekly and she aids in educating them religiously. Often, the children help with the cleaning and other small chores such as the washing of clothes or cooking when possible. Religion My religion, Calvinism, is my region’s most popular religious practice. Calvinism is one of the sects that split off of the much larger Catholic church due to disagreements in the way that certain things are handled, called the protestant reformation. The Catholics went back and fixed some of the issues people like us had with them. This is called the counter reformation. We, Calvinists, believe in the Great chain of being and that carries into our region’s belief in the body politic. This affects the way our entire political life is structured, due to the way we think of all the citizens as a human body. A second thing that Calvinism impacts is our belief in witchcraft and magic. We have strong beliefs that there are witches in this world and they must be punished. Often that punishment is death. Economic and Political Lately, in many places such as the Holy Roman Empire, there have been peasant revolts.
The are angry at their nobles and how rich the nobles are versus how poor the common people are. They are also many people who are angry over how serfs are treated by their feudal lords. Very many peasants are in impoverished situations and very little is being done with regards to helping them get out of those situations. In places like France, there is a new type of nobility that are taken to being called the ‘Nobles of the Robe’. They are the nobles that come from professions such as judges or magistrates. They have taken to calling the old nobles ‘Nobles of the Sword’. Lately, the price of things has gone up very much. A group of people are now calling it the Price revolution. The [Price Revolution] is very good for Manufacturing and guilds.Many of the merchants are now very rich.But for common people, it is bad because it is getting harder and harder to afford the things I need for me and my family to survive. It can also be good though since now I can charge more for my valuable skills and knowledge of the human
body. Final Word My family and my life is and will be rough in the future. Due to the political, religious, and economic upheaval that is starting to happen, my future is uncertain. I could become on the level of the aristocrats or my family could be wiped from the face of the earth. The world is going to change and we will have to change with it.
Even in the medical field, male doctors were dominate to the hundreds of well educated midwives. “Male physicians are easily identified in town records and even in Martha’s diary, by the title “Doctor.” No local woman can be discovered that way” (Ulrich, 1990, pg.61). Martha was a part of this demoralized group of laborers. Unfortunately for her, “in twentieth-century terms, the ability to prescribe and dispense medicine made Martha a physician, while practical knowledge of gargles, bandages, poultices and clisters, as well as willingness to give extended care, defined her as a nurse” (Ulrich, 1990, pg.58). In her diary she even portrays doctors, not midwives, as inconsequential in a few medical
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The inflated opinion the French monarchy had about themselves and other nobles lent itself to how they contributed to and handled the economic downturn in France for centuries prior to the French Revolution. Forming the foundation of many of France’s financial issues, the monarchial system granted royals and the nobles who surrounded them the ability to feel as if they are intended to be superior to the rest of France, a mentality that would last until the French Revolution began. With this monarchial system, each king of France from 1610 to 1789 would contribute in both positive and negative ways, depending greatly on the Chief Ministers they appointed. [ADD]
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