prevention

• the types of Renaissance prevention were:

  • moderation
  • cleanliness
  • Regimen Sanitatis
  • miasmata
• moderation:

  • people promoted moderation of rich and fatty foods and strong alcohol
  • people tried to be less lazy
• cleanliness:

  • like in the medieval period, a clean body and home was still important
  • public baths (stewes) were less popular due to the spread of the Great Pox, as people thought it was spreading through bathing
  • people kept clean by rubbing themselves down with linen and changing clothes regularly
• Regimen Sanitatis:

  • people still followd Regimen Sanitatis
  • they avoided illness and changing their surroundings
• miasmata:

  • fines were given out to people for not sweeping the streets outside their home
  • swamps and bogs were drained
  • sewage and litter were removed, mainly as a punsihment for minor criminals