Disease and Medicine in Ancient Greece
Diseases have been killing off a population’s favorite people before Steven Moffat even got a chance to. Sickness came into the world as soon as Eve took a bite of the forbidden fruit; sending sin, destruction, and imperfectness into the world. Throughout history, there have been many different interpretations of the sick and ill; some include the devil possessing the body, a punishment from the gods, a blessing from the gods, and the tainting of one or more of the four Humors. The practice of healing the sick changed multiple times through the years to finally become the impressive doctors and the medication that are available today. There have been multiple different remedies for the …show more content…
The disease would usually start with one person and then spread quickly and many would be killed. The deadliest and most common diseases in ancient Greece were bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, typhoid, influenza, typhus, just to name a few. Bubonic Plague, more commonly known as the black plague, was the deadliest outbreak in ancient history. The black plague’s first outbreak in 541 AD killed twenty-five million people. Smallpox killed thirty percent of the citizens who were diagnosed. The biggest outbreak of smallpox killed seven million people, this lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Tuberculosis stuck annually and killed two million people every year. The measles first originated in the ninth century AD and killed millions. There was only one cure for the Malaria disease and that was to wear an amulet around your neck that was inscribed with the word “abracadabra.” From 430 to 424 BC the typhoid disease wiped out one third of Athens population. Influenza, now known as the flu, first originated in 1580 AD and spread all throughout Greece in the Golden Age. The typhus disease could be cured but once cured it was always possible for it to come back even worse than before. It was very uncommon for anyone diagnosed with one of the aforementioned diseases or the unspoken ones to be cured completely or at
Diseases have been killing off a population’s favorite people before Steven Moffat even got a chance to. Sickness came into the world as soon as Eve took a bite of the forbidden fruit; sending sin, destruction, and imperfectness into the world. Throughout history, there have been many different interpretations of the sick and ill; some include the devil possessing the body, a punishment from the gods, a blessing from the gods, and the tainting of one or more of the four Humors. The practice of healing the sick changed multiple times through the years to finally become the impressive doctors and the medication that are available today. There have been multiple different remedies for the …show more content…
The disease would usually start with one person and then spread quickly and many would be killed. The deadliest and most common diseases in ancient Greece were bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, typhoid, influenza, typhus, just to name a few. Bubonic Plague, more commonly known as the black plague, was the deadliest outbreak in ancient history. The black plague’s first outbreak in 541 AD killed twenty-five million people. Smallpox killed thirty percent of the citizens who were diagnosed. The biggest outbreak of smallpox killed seven million people, this lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Tuberculosis stuck annually and killed two million people every year. The measles first originated in the ninth century AD and killed millions. There was only one cure for the Malaria disease and that was to wear an amulet around your neck that was inscribed with the word “abracadabra.” From 430 to 424 BC the typhoid disease wiped out one third of Athens population. Influenza, now known as the flu, first originated in 1580 AD and spread all throughout Greece in the Golden Age. The typhus disease could be cured but once cured it was always possible for it to come back even worse than before. It was very uncommon for anyone diagnosed with one of the aforementioned diseases or the unspoken ones to be cured completely or at