Part one of term paper
Samuel Johnson wrote that the life of the common man living in Europe during the 18th century was “little to be enjoyed and much to be endured.” (1) The masses of the 18th century lived short demanding lives. The life expectancy of the average person living in Europe during the 18th century was roughly 30 years. A combination of diseas ...

Part two of term paper
... Edinburgh’s death records for 1740 revealed that tuberculosis or smallpox that year caused almost half of the recorded deaths. (4) This study illustrates that disease was the most common killer of 18th century Europeans. Roughly 30 percent of infants died from disease before their first birthday. Mothers also ran a high chance of contracting disease during childbirth, thus many mothers died giving birth. Childbirth was such a risk to the women during of the 18th century that Madame de Sevigne t ...