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Doctors, Medicines, and Diseases of the Elizabethan Era
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Doctors, Medicines, and Diseases of the Elizabethan Era
Medicines that were existent back then:
This is what doctors traditionally looked like in the Elizabethan Era
- Bubonic Plague
treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm poultice of butter, onion and garlic
- Head Pains
- treated with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and bay.
- Stomach pains and sickness
- treated with wormwood, mint, and balm.
- Lung problems
- given the medical treatment of liquorice and comfrey.
- Vinegar
- was widely used as a cleansing agent as it was believed that it would kill disease.
What doctors did they have during the Elizabethan Era?
There weren't as many doctors then as there are now. The only doctors back then were:
- Apothecary
- gave remedies made from herbs, plants and roots, sold sweets, cosmetics and perfumes as well as drugs
- Physicians
- Surgeons
- Barbers
- inferior to the Surgeons
- Church
- Helped the poor
Common Diseases
- Anaemia
marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood
Rheumatism
disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles, or fibrous tissue, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis
painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
tuberculosis
infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues, especially the lungs.
Dysentery (flux)
infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.
Influenza (referred to as the 'sweating sickness')
highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics.
Citations
https://prezi.com/rwyyj0d8dvct/elizabethan-era-occupations-jobs/
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/londondisease.html
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/
Serious Diseases
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Serious illnesses
- Bubonic Plague (Black Death),
- killing nearly one third of the population
- Smallpox
- One of the worst outbreaks occurred two years before Shakespeare's birth, in 1562.
- Typhus
- lack of bathing made room for body lice, which, when scratched, would defecate on a person's skin.
- Malaria
- spread by the mosquitoes in the marshy Thames.