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Part III: Diseases of the Middle Ages ... People of the Middle Ages suffered from many diseases and problems that we no longer worry about. They had high infant mortality rates (babies often died at or soon after birth). There were few medicines to treat many illnesses and poorly trained doctors who worked without...
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www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Diseases_and...
www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Diseases_and_Cures.html
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Antibiotics weren't invented until the 1800s and it was almost impossible to cure diseases without them. ... It was also assumed that diseases of the body resulted from sins of the soul. Many people sought relief from their ills through meditation, prayer, pilgrimages, and other nonmedical methods.
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www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html
www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html
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The association between dirt and diseases was unknown in the Middle Ages, so hygiene was not paid much attention to. Epidemics were noticed to spread from man to man, so a quarantine system was used to attempt to prevent big epidemics in Europe.
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www.tkukoulu.fi/tiimalasi/en/diseases.html
www.tkukoulu.fi/tiimalasi/en/diseases.html
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The Great Mortality; From your About.com Guide, a three-part examination of the causes, course and effects of the Black Death. ... A Bibliography on the Sixth-Century Plague of Justinian ...; Useful print resources compiled by Steve Muhlberger from contributions to the list LT-ANTIQ in ... What Are the Middle Ages?
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historymedren.about.com/od/plagueanddisease/Plague_and_Disease_in_the_Middle_Ages.htm
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Of course the bacillus was not discovered until the 19th century, and during the middle ages, sufferers were thought to be "unclean" and excluded from towns and medieval life in general. The disfigurement caused by leprosy was actually caused by nerve and circulation damage to the limbs and extremities.
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members.fortunecity.com/visualhistory/medicinedisease.h...
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Following are some of the important infectious diseases in Europe during the late fourteenth century. Some were epidemic; some endemic. Nearly all fell harder on the very young, the very old, and those whose resistance was weakened by poor diet, hard labor, or previous disease.
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www.labelle.org/top_diseases.html
www.labelle.org/top_diseases.html
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This picture of turn-of-the-millennium Anglo-Saxon England is not an idyllic one, and it is sad to note that life did not grow measurably better as the Middle Ages wore on. Viruses swept through the known world with terrifying frequency, as did bouts of plague and other fatal diseases.
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www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030317/medicine.shtml
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; In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. ... The Middle Ages ... People of the Middle Ages...
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www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
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Medical knowledge in the Middle Ages must have appeared to have stood still. ... No-one knew what really caused diseases. For the Roman Catholic Church they were a punishment from God for sinful behaviour. However, some progress was made in certain areas.
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www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medicine_in_the_middle_ag...
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