Medicine Throughout Time- Middle Ages
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- Created on: 19-05-19 22:44
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- Middle Ages Medicine
- Causes
- Supernatural
- Natural
- Miasma (bad air)
- Religious
- God was punishing sinners
- Treatment of Disease
- Supernatural
- Trepanning-Drilling holes in the skull to prevent demons
- Wear charms to provide good luck
- Natural
- Better diet and exercise
- Herbal Remedies (such as honey and lemon for a sore throat)
- Strapping a chicken to the head
- Mud cast for a broken arm
- Theory of Opposites
- Peppers for a cold.
- bleeding, applying leeches, or causing purging or vomiting
- Smelling strong posies, or creating nice smells
- cutting open buboes, draining the pus and making the patient hot or cold, eg by taking hot baths
- Tidying streets (surprisingly!)
- Religious
- Praying for forgiveness
- flagellation
- Supernatural
- Causes
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