Renaissance Public Health
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- Renaissance Public Health
- Great Plague-1665
- Causes
- Punishment from God
- Miasmas
- Planetary movement
- Remedies and Treatments
- Fires lit to remove bad smells
- Trade between infected towns stopped
- Chickens on buboes
- Plague victims were quarantined
- Swept streets in front of and around the houses
- No animals in the streets
- Bodies of dead brought out at night when fewer people were about
- Public entertainments were shut down in plague affected areas.
- How it ended
- People developed resistance
- Natural reduction- flies died in cold months
- Great fire killed some germs
- Causes
- Hospitals
- Sick were cared for; doctors received training; got experience
- Hospitals opened for specific illnesses or diseases.
- St Luke's Hospital-mentally ill
- London's Lock Hospital- STDs
- Middlesex hospital- pregnant women
- Hospital boom
- 1800-20000 patients a year
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- Great Plague-1665
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