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Medicine in the Elizabethan Era
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Medicine in the Elizabethan Era
Presented by Joshua Lim
11/1/2021
References:
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- elizabethan-era.org.uk
- ipl.org
- schoolworkhelper.net
- sites.google.com
- "Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England!"
- Simple History "Weird Cures" (Youtube)
What was Medicine like in the Elizabethan Era?
Introduction: During the Elizabethan Era, the medicine was extremely basic. The medical doctors were obviously not as advanced or have intelligent insights of what we have today.
- What was Medicine like?
- Where did these ideas come from?
- What did these medicine used to treat?
- How are medical procedures performed?
- Were these medicine effective?
The Four Humours
Doctors and Medical Professions
- Only the wealthy upper class can afford physicians.
- Surgeons are inferior to the physicians, but are less expensive.
- Barbers perform similar medical procedures of Surgeons, but are inferior to them.
- Apothecaries, also dispensers of drugs, selling herbs and drugs.
- Elizabethan Housewives were the "nurses" who made their own homemade medicines of herbs they bought for their families.
- The Church provided for the poor.
The Doctors and Medical Professions
Elizabethan Housewives
Surgeons
Physician
Barbers
Apothecary
Medical Procedures
- The most common procedure of the Elizabethan Era was the blood letting, or leeching.
- Applying strong drugs of herbs
- All pains are treated with all different ways
- Toothaches are treated by yanking the tooth out.
- Amputations
Medical Procedures
Herbs and Natural Ingredients
List of herbs and natural ingredients used as medicine:
- vinegar
- rose
- lavender
- sage
- bay
- wormwood
- mint
- balm
- liquorice
- comfrey
- henbane
- hemlock
- myrrh
- coriander
- lungwort
- tobacco
- lily root
- arsenic
- dried toad
- (garlic, butter, and onions)
Description of common Medicine
Interesting Facts about Elizabethan Medicine in the Black Plague
- Feeding treacle.
- Bathe (or drink) urine.
- Drinking crushed precious stones.
- Covering yourself in human excrement
- Live chicken cure
- Whipping yourself
Interesting Facts during the Black Plague
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