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16 gru 2021 · Here are ten medieval “cures” that were used to treat the Black Death. While none of them cured the plague, the science behind some of them was quite sound. Other methods were not only ineffective, but they caused the patient even greater suffering.
15 kwi 2020 · When the Black Death struck Europe in the middle of the 14th century, nobody knew how to prevent or treat the disease. Many believed they could cure it, but none of the bloodletting, concoctions, or prayers were successful. The overall intellectual framework of dealing with illness was flawed.
9 mar 2023 · The organisation of the book follows medieval methods of understanding plague, proceeding from causes to signs, prevention and finally cure. In plague treatises, environmental signs predominate, with particular signs in patients secondarily discussed.
My conclusions from all of this are that the academic medical communities in England, France and Germany had detailed and, for the time, modern knowledge of the disease “bubonic plague” itself and of the nineteenth-century epidemics and some of those in the eighteenth century.
1 wrz 2021 · In many standard histories of the Medieval period, bubonic plague is virtually the only health condition mentioned. But what was medieval health really like? If, like some medieval saints, you could shield the population from specific sicknesses or harm, what would you target?
42 For example, W A Lethem, ‘The epidemiology of bubonic plague in Great Britain, with special reference to its spread by Pulex irritans’, J. State Med., 1923, 31: 508–15; C R Eskey, ‘Chief etiological factors of plague in Equador and the antiplague campaign’, Public Health Reports, 1930, 45: 2077–155.
There were two main types of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. Treatments and cures were based on both natural and supernatural theories about the cause of the disease.
