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Elizabethan Era Medicine
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Elizabethan Era Medicine
By:Dayton Olheiser
Elizabethan Era Physician
Note the physician wears a long robe, black boots with a beak like mask. This likely helped saved the physicians life.
Physicians, Illnesses, and medicines,Oh my!
Illnesses of the Era
Bubnic Plague-carried by fleas, infects the lymph nodes and causes a bubo or open pus filled sore
Dysentry-infection of the intestines causing loose stools with blood or mucus
Typhoid-a life threatening infection caused by contaminated food and water
Illnesses of the Era
How are you able to get medicine?
Medicines was something that the Physician gave you, or you could pick this up at an Apothecary
How are you able to get medicine?
Treatments
Types of treatments
Buboes-butter,onion,garlic and others like tobacco,arsenic, lilly root & toad
Headaches-sweet smelling herbs
Stomach Pains-Worm wood, mint, and balm
Lungs- Licorice & Comfrey
Vinegar was used for cleaning
how did the sickness spread
The sickness spreaded by people not washing there hands or in the bigger cities they pooped in the streets. It also spread because of the lack of intelligence back then and most of them didn't really know what it was or how to cure it.
Even Stranger Things
Even Stranger Things
They believed that the body was a universe, These were called the four humors.
Fire- yellow bile
Water-phlegm
Earth-black bile
Air-blood
Five Fun Facts
5 Fun Facts
- God Bless You! originated after a sneeze. When you opened your mouth to sneeze the devil could enter you.
- A stye on the eye could be cured by rubbing it on a black tomcat tail
- It was believed in using leeches to get the bad blood out of you
- Earache could be cured by putting a roasted onion on your ear
- Sicknesses were blamed on bad air, stars or just God being angry!
Closing...
Hope you enjoyed my presentation.
Remember to wash your hands!
Sources
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