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Elizabethan Medicine
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Problems Arose
*women were accused of witchcraft so there role in being nurses or doctors was taken away
*small pox started being treated with mercury
*more people got infected
Hospitals
*about 300 people came in
*hospital capacity of 206 people
*nurses treated patients in villages cause of doctors only being able to work in the cities
*each nurse would pick 30 people to treat
Clothing and Tools
*dark robes with hoods
*leather boots and gloves
Illnesses and Diseases
*bizarre masks which covered the face
*Small sicknesses such as colds and flues were treated at home by the mother or daughter
Deadly diseases:
-bubonic plague (black death)
-typhus
-malaria
-syphilis
-small pox
Weird fact: Amulets of dried blood and ground-up toads were worn around their waists.
Most open flesh wounds and bones would get infected and would have to get amputated.
Medicine
Head Pains: treated with herbs such as: rose, sage, lavender, and bay
Bubonic plague (Black Death): treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm poultice of butter, onion, and garlic
Stomach pains: treated with wormwood, mint, and balm
Doctors Vs Nurses
*also known as the eight sister
*uneducated
*only cared about their income
*helped with sick people
*not aloud to deal with medicine
*aloud to deal with medicine
Improvements
*more medicine was being created
*education was getting more important
* cities began to get ore sanitary
-less rats in drains
Conclusion
Are you still alive.....
If you were still alive then you must have had a really experienced doctors.
Elizabethan Medicine
Thesis
If you were sick in the Elizabethan Era and sent to the hospital, you might as well start writing your will in the waiting room.
By: Anna Uzbek
* Lack of strong medicine
* Mistreatment
*Uneducated doctors
Period 3