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1. Causes of Disease, treatments and healers
1. Causes of Disease, treatments and healers
Supernatural and religious explanations of the cause of disease.
Rational explanations: the Theory of the Four Humours and the miasma theory; the continuing influence in England of Hippocrates and Galen.
Approaches to prevention and treatment and their connection with ideas about disease and illness: religious actions, bloodletting and purging, purifying the air, and the use of remedies.
New and traditional approaches to hospital care in the thirteenth century. The role of the physician, apothecary and barber surgeon in treatment and care provided within the community and in hospitals, c1250–1500.
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2. The Black Death, 1348
2. The Black Death, 1348
Dealing with the Black Death, 1348–49; approaches to treatment and attempts to prevent its spread.
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