Renaissance Prevention – Change and Continuity

• Since treatments hadn’t changed much since Medieval times, there was still no certainty

  that a person with an illness would recover. Therefore, prevention was still the best way to

  avoid dying from illness.
• people also began to

  believe disease was linked

  to more factors than just

  health, like weather. The

  thermometer was used to

  record conditions.
• bathing had become a lot

  less fashionable in England since

  the arrival of syphilis (most

  baths doubled as brothels).

  People now kept clean by

  changing and washing clothes

  more often.
• continued with

  people believing that your

  health at birth might

  determine your length of

  life.
• …more effort was now made

  to remove Miasma from the air (e.g. such as removing

  sewage and cleaning up

  rubbish from the streets.