Cures?

• No concept of contagion

• Medicine worked on assumptions of astrology and humours

  • Humours - hot, cold, wet and dry - illness was caused by imbalance
  • Astrology - different planet affected health in different ways

• Lancing boils - ineffective

• Insence, bell ringing, prayer, flagellation

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version