Medicine During the Elizabethan Era
The Elizabethan Era is a big epoch in English history. This era was ruled by Queen Elizabeth, 1558 through 1603, historians refer to this place in time as the Golden Era. They refer to it as the Golden Era because of how many great accomplishments, and changes that were made. Medicine however, did not change much from medieval time to the Elizabethan Era.
During the Elizabethan Era, people still believed many incoherent theories related to anatomy. These theories were closely related to magic, how many body fluids one had in their body, what a persons zodiac sign was in accordance with the alignment of their planets, the four elements, and some phycisicians in the Elizabethan Era believed that certain gems …show more content…
The first trenchant cure for malaria, or ague was a plant, they called this plant concoction cinchona. It consists of derivatives from a pink plant called Quina. This flower has at least 23 different origins, from plants to shrubs and trees. This plant is native to the Andean Forests which are located in the western parts of South America. This plant has many medicinal purposes ranging from the alleviation of toothaches, to the treatment of malaria, ague, or the Black Plague.
The four homuours were the amount of bodily fluids that are in someone’s body. There are four different sectors that can divide the four humours, each one being a body fluid. There is blood, yellow bile, black bile or melancholy, and phlegm, each of these fluids causes some type of bodily change. Blood causes somebody to be very kind and generous, an all around good person in general. Yellow bile caused a person to be very angry, short-tempered, or very easily annoyed. Yellow bile caused a person to be very cowardly, unresponsive, or lacking a sense of intellectual ability. People with too much black bile were though to be excessively brooding, or satiric.
In all, during this time, there were no man made medications aside from the labor required to make the natural concoctions. The Elizabethan Era was a place in time where all medication was ineffective, a theory, or a natural combination of plants and
The Elizabethan Era is a big epoch in English history. This era was ruled by Queen Elizabeth, 1558 through 1603, historians refer to this place in time as the Golden Era. They refer to it as the Golden Era because of how many great accomplishments, and changes that were made. Medicine however, did not change much from medieval time to the Elizabethan Era.
During the Elizabethan Era, people still believed many incoherent theories related to anatomy. These theories were closely related to magic, how many body fluids one had in their body, what a persons zodiac sign was in accordance with the alignment of their planets, the four elements, and some phycisicians in the Elizabethan Era believed that certain gems …show more content…
The first trenchant cure for malaria, or ague was a plant, they called this plant concoction cinchona. It consists of derivatives from a pink plant called Quina. This flower has at least 23 different origins, from plants to shrubs and trees. This plant is native to the Andean Forests which are located in the western parts of South America. This plant has many medicinal purposes ranging from the alleviation of toothaches, to the treatment of malaria, ague, or the Black Plague.
The four homuours were the amount of bodily fluids that are in someone’s body. There are four different sectors that can divide the four humours, each one being a body fluid. There is blood, yellow bile, black bile or melancholy, and phlegm, each of these fluids causes some type of bodily change. Blood causes somebody to be very kind and generous, an all around good person in general. Yellow bile caused a person to be very angry, short-tempered, or very easily annoyed. Yellow bile caused a person to be very cowardly, unresponsive, or lacking a sense of intellectual ability. People with too much black bile were though to be excessively brooding, or satiric.
In all, during this time, there were no man made medications aside from the labor required to make the natural concoctions. The Elizabethan Era was a place in time where all medication was ineffective, a theory, or a natural combination of plants and