prevention

• • prevention was seen as the best way to stay healthy
  • this is because many "cures" were not very effective, so avoiding getting sick in the first place was important
• rational prevention:

  • richer people tried to make towns clean by making rules on removing rotting animals and cleaning communal toilets - prevent miasma
  • people bathed regularly - rich people bathed in stewes whereas poor people bathed in rivers and lakes
  • people started to have a varied diet
  • people tired to keep their homes smelling nice by sweeping and placing nice smelling herbs around
  • Regiment Sanitatis - came from Galen - ways to keep healthy based on lifestyle and humours
  • completing exercise
• religious prevention:

  • people tried to live a good life without sin
  • priests would burn scented candles to purify the air
  • people prayed to avoid illness and rich offered money to Church to show their faith
  • church promoted tithe to prevent illness