Tudor diseases and their cures

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Tudor diseasesand their cures
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Contents

• Gross facts
• plague
• Cures
• Other diseases
• herbs
• Cures 2
• Tudor doctors
• How it happens

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Gross facts

• Plague patients first complain of chills. This
  is followed by high temperature, and the patient
  begins to vomit. Soon their skin turns black and
  boils appear. Death follows soon after.
• Sweating sickness patients suffer from a
  headache and a pain in the chest. Then they
  sweat. Death follows.

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Plague

• Plague was one of the most feared diseases
• Of all time.
• The plague was around for centuries but in
• 1665 there was a major outbreak.
• People knew it was caused by fleas, so they
• killed all the dogs and cats because they thought
  they had
• fleas. The fire of London burned down in the most
  effective areas of the plague. But the Stuart
  England was never free from the plague .

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Cures

• How is it cured?
• People who caught Smallpox got red
• Curtains hung around there bed. They
• believed the red light would cure them.
• People who caught the Plague did daft things
  like
• Putting charms around their neck, sitting in
  between
• Bonfires, standing outside toilets, rubbing fresh
  butter all
• over their bodies. One vicar took dead wolves
  bodies and
• left them for the plague to feast on.
• Sweating sickness some believed that patients
  should cross their arms across their chest so
  air can not reach their armpits so they dont
  sweat and they covered themselves in blankets but
  they must not drink water or get too hot.
• Head pains head pains were treated with sweet
  smelling herbs such as sage, rose, lavender, bay,
  marjoram and rue. Here are some herbs for head,
  sinews and eyes roots, acory,peony and iris
  mandragora.

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Herbs

• Herbs sage, betony, thyme, eyebright, fennel and
  vervain. Seeds aniseed. Flowers rosemary and
  water lily. For stomach and bowel
• Herbs sea wormwood, garden mint and costmary.
  Spices ginger, mace, pepper and cavaboe. They
  use every part of a plant.
• Wee was a cure to drink or squashed lice even
  blood or hair. Anne green boiled the patients
  hair in her urine and chucked it in a fire to
  cure head injures. If you are eating you dinner
  dinner right now please look away!

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Cures 2

• Jaundice was cured by lice mixed with ale and had
  to be swallowed each morning for seven days. A
  treatment for gout was to give them a foot
  mixture made out of worms, pigs marrow and herbs
  all boiled together with the hair of a red haired
  dog.
• For deafness the gall was greased with the grease
  of a fox.

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Other diseases

• Scrofula Scrofula is a type of skin disease a
  form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph modes of
  the neck.
• Scurvy scurvy is caused by the lack of vitamin c
  found
• in fresh fruit and vegetables.
• It was common till the 1800s.
• Sudor Anglicus sweating sickness men
  suffered more
• than women, the illness first occurred in 1485
  and there
• were six epidemics during the 15th and 16th
  centuries.

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Tudor doctors

• Tudor medicine was not very scientific. Doctors
  had to train In astrology as well as medicine as
  people still believed that some illnesses were
  caused more by the influence of the stars then by
  germs and poor hygiene.
• The word influenza comes from influence and
  malaria means bad air.

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