Most people view Medieval medicine as useless or ineffectual, but it was very useful, although the epidemic was a tragedy of it made us thrive for new medicine.
Medicine could go from Anise,Licorice to stomping on a plucked dead, burning owl to treat someone in this time and nobody knows if any of it really helped. Diseases such as the “bloody flux”, “ holy fire”,gonorrhea,influenza,plague was going around at this time. Seeing this it opened their eyes and they saw they needed better ways to handle sick people. Lack of sanitation in big cities was a major issue, tight corridors and no way to get rid of bacteria and germs. Only the wealthy had warm water,but doctors did practice Aristotle methods. Medicine was simple and knowledge was little, …show more content…
When being called they check pulse with sand clock and checking urine with smell and taste. Doctors at this time ad their own garden growing herbs for their medicine.
medieval medicine was slim to none to growing and learning with disease and doctors. How they lived then shows us how to live now. For simple problems people tried very outrageous ways to treat others.The black death, killed millions. Medieval living was disgusting, rodent and flea infested. Medieval doctor had no knowledge to treat people except for old principles from Aristotle.
Medieval times were full of diseases, germs and death, but by the time it was all over we learned more than we ever possibly could. We manage diseases, pain, the small, normal, and severe. Ride it out or embrace it, they did the best they could and pushed through it. When our Hopes go away to reality, we finally give in to the truth, it just means we will lose today's battles not tomorrow's war, but they figure out ways around the war or this disease killing everyone. Climates became hotter, people stopped traveling, many sat between two fire breathing purify air until the threat of the plaque was no longer a shadow over daily
Medicine could go from Anise,Licorice to stomping on a plucked dead, burning owl to treat someone in this time and nobody knows if any of it really helped. Diseases such as the “bloody flux”, “ holy fire”,gonorrhea,influenza,plague was going around at this time. Seeing this it opened their eyes and they saw they needed better ways to handle sick people. Lack of sanitation in big cities was a major issue, tight corridors and no way to get rid of bacteria and germs. Only the wealthy had warm water,but doctors did practice Aristotle methods. Medicine was simple and knowledge was little, …show more content…
When being called they check pulse with sand clock and checking urine with smell and taste. Doctors at this time ad their own garden growing herbs for their medicine.
medieval medicine was slim to none to growing and learning with disease and doctors. How they lived then shows us how to live now. For simple problems people tried very outrageous ways to treat others.The black death, killed millions. Medieval living was disgusting, rodent and flea infested. Medieval doctor had no knowledge to treat people except for old principles from Aristotle.
Medieval times were full of diseases, germs and death, but by the time it was all over we learned more than we ever possibly could. We manage diseases, pain, the small, normal, and severe. Ride it out or embrace it, they did the best they could and pushed through it. When our Hopes go away to reality, we finally give in to the truth, it just means we will lose today's battles not tomorrow's war, but they figure out ways around the war or this disease killing everyone. Climates became hotter, people stopped traveling, many sat between two fire breathing purify air until the threat of the plaque was no longer a shadow over daily