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Chapter 3 medicine WJEC
Chapter 3 medicine gcse WJEC notes about each era of attempts to cure and treat illness and disease
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Attempts to treat and cure illnessMedieval
Medieval
o Herbal remedies
o Blood letting believe in the humours are imbalanced
o Praying
o Drill into someone head
o Leeches were a staple medicine treatment because they suck the blood
and bad out of you
o Wise woman
– Eel hand for warts
– Worm necklace for sore throat
– Nettles for arthritis
– Worm Stew
o The barbers surgeon
- Urine
- Instrument/surgery
Honey + other plants we now know cure infections
Included prayers to say while collecting herbs to increase effectiveness
Pick on a full moon or when waning
If picked at wrong time, might not work
Often Guarded family secrets handed down generation
They followed a zodiac chart
Early Modern
, Most of the remedies/treatments used in the medieval era were also used in the
early modern
Lady Johanna St John- Played a role in healing in this period. Had a large
household recipe book of cures
New ingredients were added e.g. Tobacco and rhubarb
Smoking a pipe was considered an excellent way to keep the plague away
Industrial
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