Tudor diseases and their cures

Contents Gross facts plague Cures Other diseases herbs Cures 2 Tudor doctors How it happens

Gross facts Plague: patients first complain of chills. This is followed by high temperature, and the patient begins to vomit. Soon their skin turns black and boils appear. Death follows soon after. Sweating sickness: patients suffer from a headache and a pain in the chest. Then they sweat. Death follows.

Plague Plague was one of the most feared diseases Of all time. The plague was around for centuries but in 1665 there was a major outbreak. People knew it was caused by fleas, so they killed all the dogs and cats because they thought they had fleas. The fire of London burned down in the most effective areas of the plague. But the Stuart England was never free from the plague.

Cures How is it cured? People who caught Smallpox got red Curtains hung around there bed. They believed the red light would cure them. People who caught the Plague did daft things like: Putting charms around their neck, sitting in between Bonfires, standing outside toilets, rubbing fresh butter all over their bodies. One vicar took dead wolves bodies and left them for the plague to feast on. Sweating sickness :some believed that patients should cross their arms across their chest so air can not reach their armpits so they don’t sweat and they covered themselves in blankets but they must not drink water or get too hot. Head pains: head pains were treated with sweet smelling herbs such as sage, rose, lavender, bay, marjoram and rue. Here are some herbs for head, sinews and eyes: roots, acory,peony and iris mandragora.

Herbs Herbs: sage, betony, thyme, eyebright, fennel and vervain. Seeds: aniseed. Flowers: rosemary and water lily. For stomach and bowel Herbs: sea wormwood, garden mint and costmary. Spices: ginger, mace, pepper and cavaboe. They use every part of a plant. Wee was a cure to drink or squashed lice even blood or hair. Anne green boiled the patients hair in her urine and chucked it in a fire to cure head injures. If you are eating you dinner dinner right now please look away!

Cures 2 Jaundice was cured by lice mixed with ale and had to be swallowed each morning for seven days. A treatment for gout was to give them a foot mixture made out of worms, pigs marrow and herbs all boiled together with the hair of a red haired dog. For deafness the gall was greased with the grease of a fox.

Other diseases Scrofula: Scrofula is a type of skin disease a form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph modes of the neck. Scurvy: scurvy is caused by the lack of vitamin c found in fresh fruit and vegetables. It was common till the 1800’s. Sudor Anglicus [ sweating sickness] : men suffered more than women, the illness first occurred in 1485 and there were six epidemics during the 15 th and 16 th centuries.

Tudor doctors Tudor medicine was not very scientific. Doctors had to train In astrology as well as medicine as people still believed that some illnesses were caused more by the influence of the stars then by germs and poor hygiene. The word influenza comes from influence and malaria means bad air.

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