Prevention

• Prevention

  Religious approach:

  for most, the best way to prevent disease was to lead a sin-free life with regular prayer and confessions to remove sin and avoid punishment from god. flagellants also wiped themselves to punish themselves so that god wouldn’t punish them
• Prevention:

  Lifestyle:

  hygiene and diet advice was provided by physicians in a set of instructions called the regimen sanitatis. keeping clean through bathing was important; public baths (stewes) were available for free. diet was believed to affect the humours: eating too much was discouraged and people would regularly purge.
• Prevention

  Purifying air:

  people carried sweet herbs (like lavender) or posies (a bunch of flowers) to purify air. there was some action from the local government to tackle miasma; they cleaned towns to ensure no rotting animals were left lying around.