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Elizabethan England Medicine
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Elizabethan England
Medicine
Medicine
- Not a lot of medicine
- Poultices were used, and made with onion, butter, garlic
- Also they also tobacco, lily roots, arsenic and dried toad to eat
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Physicians and Surgeons
Physicians and Surgeons
- Surgeons did the same things as barbers but were more skilled at it
- The highest, most rich class would have physicians. Physicians have to have received an education from a college or university for physicians.
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Barbers
- Barbers were only allowed to pull out teeth and do bloodletting
- Bloodletting was basically cutting someone's wrists and letting the blood flow out. They did this because they thought when the blood came out, it would take the virus with it.
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The Apothecary and Church
The Apothecary and Church
- Most people went to the Apothecary
- The Apothecary was a place where they sold medicines
- The poor people went to church and the church provided some shelter for them
- But the most poor of all had to consult the village's "Wise Woman" or they had to make homemade medicine
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Apothecary
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Church Pictures
Church
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Homemade Medicine
- Consisted of mainly herbs
- Thyme, Dianthus, Linden, Rosemary, Daffodils, Saffron Crocus, Hellebore, Rose and many more were used in homemade medicine
- Fun Fact: It turns out the roots of Hellebore were poisonous and potentially fatal