Medival

• Treatment of disease middle ages

  • 4 humours
  • supernatural
  • religious
  • herbal remedies
• Causes of disease middle ages

  • miasma
  • 4 humour theory
  • supernatural
  • god
  • theory of opposites
• prevention middle ages

  • flagellates
  • offerings to god
  • regimin sanitais
  • wore charms
  • sweet smelling herbs
• regimin sanitais


  recommend by physicians for how to keep a healthy lifestyle
• public health in middle ages

  • laws banning littering
  • rakers employed to clean streets
  • pipes to bring fresh water
  • laws on locations for toilets
• Care during middle ages

  • wise women
  • apothecaries
  • barber surgeons
  • physicians
  • hospitals ran by church
• symptoms of black death

  • buboes
  • high fever
  • vomiting
  • unconsciousness
  • death
• ideas on cause of black death

  • punishment from god
  • movement of planets
  • 4 humours
  • supernatural
• treatment of black death

  • running herbs on buboes
  • drinking vinegar
  • flagellation
  • charms
• prevention of black death

  • quarantine
  • cleaning of streets
  • herbs around neck
  • closing city gates
  • closed parliament
• life expectancy middle ages 


  35
• The black death 


  1348-9
• Medival 


  1250-1500