Medicine In The Middle Ages

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Medicine in the Middle Ages Medicine in the middle ages started with the Bubonic plague also known as the Black Death. The Black Death appeared in the Mediterranean region around 542 A.D., and the Black Death was an epidemic with high mortality and killed millions of people. The plague reached and invaded Europe in 1347 A.D. affecting Italy first, then France, England, and finally northern Europe. The Black Death killed rich and poor people. The cause of the epidemic plague was by bacteria Yersinia Pestis according to the researchers on the skeletons of plague victims by testing their DNA and proteins, but there are many other pathogens wich means that any organisms that cause disease-like virus, bacteria, fungus, and parasites. In this era, there is no identified for …show more content…

They only treated patients with herbs and natural products. In the middle age, medicine was not effective because they used natural resources, doctors were not dependable and social class depended on who you would go to when you were sick. Medicine in the middle ages was ineffective because they didn’t know the real cause of disease and using natural resources such as herbs. Many people died from surgery leak of blood typing and an overdose of wine and opium. During the outbreak of plague, a lot of people died and many people joined religious processions to ask God to save them. During this time, a lot of people believed that they had sinned. They thought that they had to repent by inflicting pain on themselves wich is called flagellants, which wiped a lot of them. This proved the leak of information about the plague. People didn’t discover or know anything about bacteria, infections or antibiotic treatments. They only depended on the information of the medicine that moved from one generation to another. Women in the middle ages knew a lot about illness and used cures that have been handed from generation to generation without documenting this information on

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