How effective was medicine in roman britain?
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- How effective was medicine in Roman Britain?
- Ideas about cause of disease
- God sent the plague as a punishment for our sins
- Bad air or planets can send the plague
- Measles can make you deaf in one ear
- Many people could not afford a doctor and some nurses were not trained
- Playing out in the cold with bare feet can cause chillblains
- People would pay to keep themselves clean but not the poorer people
- Treatments, preventions and cures
- They bled people to restore them and clear them out if their humours were out of balance
- Mashed up hot turnips on your feet if they hurt
- Put honey on cuts and bandage grazes with dropwort and comfrey
- Praying to God for forgiveness
- Cure for the pestilence was a holy remedy made from herbs and dust from the holy cross where christ was crucified
- Visit surgeon every 6 months to be bled from unbalanced humours
- Sore eyes = onion, garlic, bull's gail, wine
- Transfusing dog blood to a man
- 2 spoonfuls of 'cure oil tonic' will save you from cholera.
- Ride a donkey in a circle 7 times for a cough
- Public Health
- Water came from aqueducts which brought water from the hills
- Public toilets emptied into stone sewers flushed by rain water or water from bath house
- Wells for drinking water were often close to cesspools for dumping sewage
- Towns had a bath house where people washed and excerised
- Henry VIII closed monastris and hospitals
- Toilets and cesspools were cleaned out at night, soilmen and the waste was carried through the streets on carts
- Get children vaccinated in 1930's and kept babies clean
- In 1911, workers would pay into the national insurance scheme which covered people if they got sick or unemployed. Not for people who had not been working.
- Early 1900's kids got free school meals and medical inspections to check their health
- Ideas about cause of disease
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