Medicine

Farmer Pounding Roots For Medicine

               

             Sickness was thought to be cured by therapy. The people would use dietects, pharmacology, and surgery to get rid of certain sicknesses. Another way that sickness was cured was with the help of hermits and village women. They would often practice magical medicine to help cure someone or even just traditional medicine used everyday. That cure didn't last long because churches started to say that the people were witches, so they weren't too popular in the towns anymore.

             There was a theory that was about what made up the human body. They belived that we were made up of all the elements put into one person. That would mean that I haev fire, earth, air, and water all inside of me right now. I understand water and air, but they should know that people die if they catch on fire and you can't move if you are earth. Overall, medicine was much simpler back then than it is today.

       

There were very many different types of medicine back in medieval times. One way that people were healed is by drinking hot water with herbs. Now we normally call it tea. Different herbs heal different things, but you have to be careful because some herbs might heal, but they can be deadly if used too much. Another way that people were heals is by bleeding with a leech. The leech would suck out the blood which was supposed to suck out the disease along with it. It might have work sometimes, but it was probably painful too.