causes, treatments, and prevention

• causes of disease 1250-1500 (medieval)

  • punishment /test from god
  • miasma
  • misalignment of planets/stars
  • The theory of four humours
• why did people believe in theory of four humours (medieval)

  • the church
  • lack of alternatives
  • book learning importance
• causes people believed for BLACK DEATH (1348)

  • god deserting mankind
  • miasma
  • unusual alignment of mars, jupiter and saturn
• treatments (1250-1500 / medieval)

  • religious
  • astrology
  • using four humours
  • herbal remedies
  • bathing
  • food
  • superstitions
  • hospitals
  • barber surgeons
  • at home
• which religious treatments were used 1250-1500

  • fasting
  • healing prayers
  • praying
  • paying for a special mass
  • pilgrimage
• why was astrology a treatment

  star charts
• which treatments were used in accordance with the four humours?

  • blood letting
  • purging
  • dyster/enema
  • urine
• what treatments were used in herbal remedies

  • bathing
  • food (to balance humours)
  • superstitions
• which treatments were used by hospitals

  • run by monaster
• which treatments were used in hospitals

  • run by monasteries
  • hospitality NOT treatment
• what did physicians do

  • well-trained
  • diagnosed but did not treat
• religious prevention methods

  • prayer
  • confession
  • tithes
• what were the hygienic prevention methods

  • regimen sanitatis
  • changing diet
  • purifying the air
• which prevention methods were used for the BLACK DEATH 1348

  • prayer
  • pilgrimage
  • self-flagellation
  • leaving
  • holding a posy of flowers/ herbs to nose
  • avoiding victims
  • quarantine laws (often ignored)
  • dirty dirty streets to drive away miasma