What did people in the past think made us ill?

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  • Whipping yourself
    • What did people used to think cured diseases?
      • Purging someone - to make them sick.
        • This was because the king often had fits.
        • They removed all the hair from his body to try and remove what was causing the fits.
        • Logical
      • Cleaning your nose
        • They thought this cured a brocken nose
      • Rebalancing the 4 humours.
        • Charles II decided that purging, taking blood and sneezing was a good cure for illnesses.
        • An imbalance of the 4 humours lead to us becoming weak and ill.
    • People did this to try and cure the plague.
    • They thought God would see them hurting themselves and therefore, take the plague away and forgive them.
    • Ilogical

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