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This title gives readers an in-depth look at death and disease in medieval times. You can find out what ordinary people did when they fell ill and discover the herbs and potions doctors used to treat the plague and other illnesses. It also tells you about the first medical schools in Europe and about how medicine progressed in five hundred years of medieval living.
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Table of Contents
Includes: Health and disease in 1000 AD
The legacy of the Ancient World
The influence of the church
Medicine in the Middle Ages
The treatment of illness and disease
Famine
Death in medieval times
Medieval diseases: Leprosy
Medieval diseases: Plague
The causes of the black death
The black death
Explanations for the black death
Treatments for the plague
The plague returns
Consequences of the plague
The birth of modern medicine
Medical schools
Surgery and surgeons
Hospitals
Public health and sanitation
The dawn of a new era.
Edition Notes
Originally published: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Key Stage 4.
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