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.
- Purging someone - to make them sick.
- 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
- What did people used to think cured diseases?
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