Treating Disease and Rational Explanations 1250 - 1500

Basically, The Four Humours was something started off by Hippocrates, later improved by Galen, which I will talk about later on. It was pretty ******* popular in Medieval England. The Church loved it because it linked with Galen.

Four Humours was separated by Phlegm, Blood, Yellow Bile and Black bile. Hippocrates said that these humours need to be balanced in order for the body to stay healthy.

Then BOOM! Out comes Galen, who had developed by using the Theory of Opposites. He said that some foods contain a particular humour. This could be used to balance the humours. Soooo... say I had a cold, I would need something hot to balance my humours.

Basically, this really stupid thing that Britain thought was the reason that disease was caused was... get this... the ******* air.

Bad air could be caused by dead bodies, slaughterhouses, **** and **** and many other things that caused stench.

Few hundred years later, this French *****, Louis Pasteur, made some Germ Theory thing that then proved that germs caused disease. Not the air. You dumb *****.

Basically, after that really ****** theory that the British made - My ***, Ma, they all said that they can prevent this by cleaning up after themselves and others that cannot. No, I'm not talking Steven Hawking unable to help.

I'm talking about dead people.

Because dead people had one of the many reasons for "bad air", which is again, a whole load of fuckery, people would clean up, which is a good thing. No one wants a dead dude outside your house.  But the way that was pretty popular was adding in these ***** into our society.

Plague Doctors.

They would have posies on their noses to clean up the ******* air as well as keeping themselves safe from the infected. Moronic.  

And yes, Physicians would do this too.

Something fancy to use in the exam is "Juniper", "Myrrh" and "Inces(t)e". 

These are herbs that were burnt to make the room smell nice. Like Bahoor.

Basically, they tried. They were ****** NHS doctors. And even they're ****. Let that sink in.

There were a 100 of these pricks in 1300. Most of them were men that were in University for seven years and would read Islamic Texts. Due to The Roman Church telling people not to perform dissections, these Physicians had little practical experience. They were like prostitutes - expensive.

They had Vademecums' which were these books that helped Physicians state the clinical observations. Like cheat notes.

And yes... they had posies and oranges to purify the air. 

Kill me right now.

Basically, The Roman Catholic Church was in love with this geezer. True fuckboy he was.

He believed that the body was a gift from God, which in the Scientific world, is complete bullshit. 

Actually, most of his ideas were incorrect. Woe is me!

Scholars of medicine would follow this guy because his ideas fit well with The Church.

This ***** really cockblocked scientific studies. **** you, Galen.

He was probably right about one thing, Theory of Opposites, which I mentioned about in Four Humours.

I liked him. He's like KSI. Galen's Deji. KSI gave Deji fame. 

He created The Four Humour thing, that I mentioned in Four Humours.

He wrote about about all of his beliefs about medicine in his books. He was known as the "absolute truth" as well as Galen.

He made the Hippocratic Oath that doctors, till this very day,  use as a promise to obey rules of behaviour in their professional life.

Some ediyats believed that the reason why we had these diseases in our life was because of... get this... God.

For **** Sake.

And guess who spread the Drama!? Yes, that's right. The Church!

They act big man by saying **** like:

• "You need to pray"
• "You need to repent"
• "Repent by whipping yourself" - These dudes were called flagellants
• "Pay us money and you'll be fine" - Yeah, I Know, Right?

This was a cockblock because this prevented people from finding cures because all you could do is Hannah Baker it. 

Basically, get this... movement of planets and stars are the reason why we have diseases.

Yeah, that's a bag load of *****. 

It was created by the Islamic World, which were 10 times smarter than Medieval Britain. 

Basically, pharmacies.

The sold remedies. Yeah, no paracetamol! They gave you advice too, 

Trained through apprenticeship. So they were not as professional as physicians! 

Don't get me started on Barbers. Christ almighty.

Basically, there were not any Noor's or Imran or any of that ****, Barbers were really crappy surgeons! They had no idea what hygiene was. They caused a lot of blood loss, infections and definitely a lot of pain.

They knew they were ****, so they had performed really small procedures.

Just cut my hair pls. x

Basically, before the NHS, people would be treated at home.

Then BOOM! Monasteries were used a public hospice. But unfortunately, they cared for the elderly and not the sick. It was a nice place to stay in. 

In addition to this, they had clean water as dirty and clean were separated. This was rare in Medieval England.

Cleanliness, what!??

Basically, they actually tried.

They were the reason dead people would be buried in graveyards. In addition to this, they tried to prevent the spread of The Plague.

When The Cemetery of Winchester became full, The Bishop would extend it. But not anymore! He got shut down when the people told him to make new ones out of town so it won't be passed on.

People of Gloucester were ******** their pants when they found out the Black Death was coming close. They tried to Clash of Clans it by blocking off people from coming in but ****** up. 

Many died :(

King Edward III: "**** this, close parliament!"