GCSE History Medieval Medicine - prevention of disease
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- Created on: 27-05-19 09:59
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- Prevention of disease
- Disease caused by God
- Prayer to God / Saint for forgiveness or protection
- Most common & least effective
- Be faithful to God
- Prayer to God / Saint for forgiveness or protection
- Miasma
- Burn sweet smelling things to drive away the miasma
- Burning of herbs - limited effect
- The fires would have prevented fleas going near people close to them
- Burn sweet smelling things to drive away the miasma
- Quarantine - very effective
- However can only barricade once symptoms show
- Regimine Sanitatus
- Limited success but overall worked for minor disease due to improved hygiene
- Astrological signs and charms
- Believed would ward off evil spirits & the miasma
- Useless
- Church outlawed it
- Disease caused by God
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