Andrew Wear Remedies

Before the 18th century, medicine had not advanced beyond the practices of bloodletting and balancing the four humors of the body. These medical practices were not effective and did more harm than good. It was not until the Scientific Revolution that physicians slowly started to learn more about the human body and how functions. The numerous advancements of medicine in the 18th century and resulting benefits to European Society are reflected in the lack of medical practices before the 1700s, the creation of the smallpox vaccine, and improved techniques.

During the Middle Ages, medical knowledge was severely limited. People did not understand things like germs and how diseases are spread from person to person. To the Medieval man,

They were highly valued by the wealthy people. They were used as medicine as well when someone was sick or when the bubonic plague was happening.

Medieval medicine was rooted in Ancient Greek practices. In 65 A.D., a Greek writer, Discorides, wrote a book, Material Medica. The book is about medical use of over five-hundred different plants. The book is translated into Hebrew and Arabic. Doctors in the Early Modern Era knew very little, and they used plants as the most important care and/or treatment. Due to unsanitary places and tools, many different diseases spread around Europe. Life was challenging during the Early Modern Era because of many diseases(Alchin). During the 1500s- 1600s, diseases overtook many people because doctors knew little, medicine was unknown, and there were many causes.

Primarily, the lack of education in the Elizabethan era prominently impacted the doctor’s ways to treat their patients. Not many practitioners in Elizabethan England had the education to properly treat their patients. Most people went to the apothecary where drugs could be

The ways of the old didn’t just go away with time, today many of the same remedies can be used such as mint for stomach pain, lavender for headaches, and vinegar for wounds. In this era, doctors were expensive and only called in the most extreme of cases such as the black plague or bubonic plague. The motto of an Elizabethan was to primarily do with what you have, by treating herbs with care and treating the wounded they passed down tools for medical advancements centuries to come. (“Elizabethan Medicine and

One of their practices would be using wine as an antiseptic. This was used to disinfect when there were cuts, wounds, or abrasions in the skin. Another way that they did treatments was through religious ways. Many people would pray for their sickness instead of being able to actually treat

During the Medieval era there were many diseases. Because of the lack of hygiene in the medieval times, diseases would spread like a wildfire. Just to name a few common diseases that happened in this time, there was the Black Death, leprosy, measles, and typhoid fever. These were most likely transported because of dirty bedsheets and blankets, unwashed clothing, and rodents. The treatments for these diseases and other things, such as medicine for stomach pains, medicine for wounds, and medicine for headaches, are different from today’s standards.

Hippocrates, a physician of Greece believed in scientific reasoning and the power of natural healing his belief continued until the 19th century (2300 years). During the second century Galan, another Greek physician was the first to promote the key to healing and soon every health problem were fit into a classification (as it is today). His ways were strict and only doctors had access to the healing knowledge. During the dark ages natural healing was embraced once more. The Arabs brought alchemy and pharmacy into Western medicine. They introduced new ointments elixirs, pills, suppositories, carcinogenics, and inhalations to the masses in the 12th century herbal pharmacies were common in every neighborhood. In the 16th century Paracelsus taught that alchemy and chemistry were a way to unlock the secrets of nature. Both the alchemist of his day, and the chemists of our day, adhere to the beliefs

We find that the “oldest written sources of western medicine are The Hippocratic writings from the 5th and 4th centuries BC; which covers all aspects of medicine at that time and contain numerous medical terms.”(Wulff) This was the beginning of the Greek era of the language of medicine, which lasted even after the Roman

The logic and principles of medieval medicine shaped those of Modern medicine. Never was there a more efficient method perfected, so much that it remained through history through so many hundreds of years. Today’s concepts of diagnosis, relationships with the church, anatomy, surgery, hospitals and training, and public health were established in the Middle Ages.

It was no way for doctors and scientist to be able to study different treatments and diseases similar to how it is now. So because of the lack of knowledge dealing with medicine, the only thing that seemed to work was old remedies that were passed down or thought to cure diseases. Majority of the individuals who stepped into a hospital either never came back out alive or were not cured of the disease the patient had. Hospitals were also not well kept

During the Black Death, not all their details were understood; the doctors didn’t understand the cause of the plague or how to treat the disease. They overlooked important things like cleanliness, hygiene and treatments. Many patients who were

This semester we discussed many things within the human body. We learned about many different systems of the body, such as the muscular system, urinary system, lymphatic system, cardiovascular system, nervous system, and the reproductive system. When studying all of these systems, we would look into different diseases or illnesses that could affect each system. Different illnesses affect different parts of our body in many ways and can be life threatening in many situations. In Fever 1798 I read how the fever affected their bodies, their ways for treatment, how they reacted, and more.

An extract from the report of the University of Paris medical faculty is a primary source that can be used to see what people found the cause of the pestilence to be. The source’s audience is aimed at those living during the happening of the Black Death. Towards the end of the source it urges people to not abandon doctors, instead reassuring people that God works through the medicine provided by doctors. It was important to give God the credit but also make sure people still seek doctors for treatment. This shows that the source was intended for people living during the fourteenth century.