Flagellation was a form of preventing people from God punishing them and making them fall ill.
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Confession
Prevention
People would confess their sins to God to prevent him from punishing them and making them ill.
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4 Humours
Treatment
They believed that if you balanced the humours (phlegm, blood, black bile and choler) then you would be better. If you were suffering with a fever then they would give you cucumber to cool you down.
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Trepanning
Treatment
Trepanning was a form of getting rid of headaches or migraines.
They would drill a hole into your head to release the pressure from your head, or to release the demon who was occupying your head.
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Phlebotomy
Treatment
Phlebotomy was a form of blood letting using leeches.
They would use blood letting when you had a fever as they believed that you had too much blood in your body and therefore had to get rid of some.
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Prevention or Treatment?
Flagellation
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Prevention
Flagellation was a form of preventing people from God punishing them and making them fall ill.
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