Sanitation In The Elizabethan

Health in the Elizabethan was very poor. Knowledge about sanitation and medical treatments were limited. People started to believe that if they had a disease the soul was bad. As popularity was increasing the sanitation was worsening. Doctor would determine the disease based on the persons urine color or they we determined it on the four humors which is blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy, if the humors we imbalanced they we said to be sick they would be cured by removing or adding blood or bile form there body. People thought the disease were there sins so they would use prayer, meditation and pilgrimages trying to cure themselves. People also tried herbal remedies and potion which included urine, earthworms and animal feces these potion were used to make a person drowsy for surgery or to relive pain although it would end up killing the patients. …show more content…
Medical treatment we only available to wealthy and doctor the doctor work black robe and masks to keep the disease away from them. The major disease, the bubonic plague (the black death) which was transmitted by rats and carried by fleas no one knew what was happening most people would die within a week and small pox, it came to Europe by sea people were terribly sick people who survives were covered in big black boils which made them use makeup which contain lead to cover up the horrible black boils. People living condition were horrible people never showered more than once a year. A person would only live up to the age 30. Half of the children born in this era would not live up to adulthood. The living condition worsen when the bubonic plague hit the Elizabethan