Medical+Practices

__Medical Practices__ __by: Toby Beck__

The basic treatment for curing people when they are sick is purging. Purging is when you drink alot of water and flush your system out of all bad things in your body. also you can get an enema. Another way was bleeding the body. Alot of people died from this because they lost a lot of blood. Also if they got cut in the wrong place you would just bleed to death. ( Kathy Elgin pg.12)

__ Birth __

​ All women feared birth most of them die with there baby's at birth. If a baby last to see his or her first birthday they should be fine and have nothing wrong with it. Many children were abandoned from there parents because there kid had an illness or a disability. Almost 25% of children die before they are 10 years old. They either die from a disease such as the black plague. ( Kathy Elgin pg. 14)

​ __ Barber Surgeons __

In the Elizabethan time when people was sick they either cut them and left them drain or put a leech on them. The leeches will suck all the blood out of the body. The doctors thought this would suck all the bad out of the body and make people feel better. When people got cut or leeches put on them they had to watch how much blood they loose, but if they lost more than 4 pints they will have a risk of dying. Also people could die from the leeches having a disease. ( Kathryn Senior pg.12)

__Beliefs__

"They believed that our health was divided into 4 humors: Blood phlegm, Yellow bile, Black bile." Many doctors recomended that otherwise healthy people bleed on a normal bases. Many people thought that the positions of the stars could also affect a persons health. (John F. Andrews pg.97)

__ Disease __

"Diseases became more common in the 16th century. Amoung them there was Typhus, Small pox, Diphethena and Measles. There is also dental disease sometimes it causes death, and congenital and acquired blindness were also common for children to get. When people had a ear ache they took a fried onion and put it in there ear to make it feel better." (spring field)



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