... to Hippocrate's and Galen and followed some of their ideas. He knew the work of more recent writers including Pare. He wrote two long books, describing the surgical methods he had seen and used. He gave far more space in his own cases, than he gave to modern or ancient medical writers. This helped improve medical health because others could read his books to learn about surgical methods. In 1665 London was hit by the worst outbreak of The Plague for three centuries. Fifty years later Daniel Defoe wrote a dramatic and accurate account of life during The Plague. There were many religious ideas about the plague and they were still using supernatural ideas. New ideas were ideas such as touching each other would spread the disease. It's more rational than supernatural which is what Defoe believed in. They were looking in the right direction for cures. There were many ways of preventing ...

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