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Summary Chapter 2 history of medicine WJEC GCSE overview
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Attempts to prevent illness and diseaseMedieval
- Believed in 4 humours
Air- Warm/moist-spring
Fire-Hot/dry-Summer
Earth-Cold/dry-Autum
Water-Cold/wet-Winter
Zodiac Charts
Astrology
Birth signs
- Role of Church was very influential in medieval times, it argued that
physical illness was a manifesting of spiritual illness.
- Some people believed that if you wanted to avoid the black death you
should not eat to much, or you should not bathe.
- Some believed washing would keep you clean and keep the Black Death
away
- Others suggested avoiding sex as it weakened the bodys defenced against
illness
- Drinking urine once a day
- King Edward ordered the streets of London cleaned of all the filth, arguing
that the smell spread the black death(miasma)
- Some fled, or isolated
- Roger Bacon was an alchemist, tried to free people from illness
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