1. 16 Century Medicine
“A plague o’ both your houses,”(Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet)
Alyssa and Kayla

2. Plague People were told to stay inside no cure people would die
spread easily

3. Bubonic Plague (Black death)
Symptoms of bubonic plague:
Chills
Fever
Muscle pain
Headache
Seizures
Treatment for bubonic plague:
Need immediate treatment, if not treated within 24 hours, death may occur
Antibiotics

4. Measles and Melancholy
Symptoms of measles:
People mistake it for smallpox
Bloodshot eyes
Rash
Sore throat
White spots inside the mouth
Treatment for Measles:
No specific treatment
Bed rest
Tylenol
Melancholy
thought to have been caused by black bile or a bad conscience
for black bile people would blood let, purge, and stay in pleasant surroundings
for a bad conscious faith in god was recommended
writer thought that it was caused by
excessive passion
love sickness
other mental disturbances

5. Treatment for syphilis:
Symptoms of syphilis:
Fever
Sore throat
Vague feeling of weakness
Weightloss
Patchy hair loss
Treatment for syphilis:
there is no home treatment
need prescribed medicine from doctor
antibiotics
blood tests are required

6. Influenza Symptoms of influenza:
Infection through nose, throat and lungs
Flu like symptoms
Headache
Bodychills
Sore throat/ dry cough
Treatment for influenza:
Tylenol
Advil
Lots of rest
Drink a lot of liquids
Don’t drink/ smoke

7. Scarlet fever Symptoms of scarlet fever:
Rash (spreads all over body within two days)
high fever
caused by bacteria in strep throat
most often occurs between ages 2-10
Treatment for Scarlet fever:
antibiotics
Treatment can include:
ear infections
kidney damage
liver damage

8. Treatment of smallpox:
Smallpox and Malaria
Symptoms of smallpox:
Backache
Highly infections
Burning fever followed by an eruption of multiple pustules
Vomiting
30% of the time death occurs
Treatment of smallpox:
If smallpox vaccine is given within 1-4 days it could be stopped or make it less severe
There is no specific drug to treat it
Antibiotics may shorten duration of the disease
Symptoms of malaria:
High fevers
Shaking chill
Nausea
Sweating/ Vomiting
Flu like symptoms
Treatment of malaria:
Different drugs for each stage of the malaria
Primaquine
Chloroquine
Mefloquine

9. Midwifery women that helped during childbirth
higher class with husband in high power
respectable women in the community
when they arrived the father would have to leave the room
Would bring the child to the priest

10. Ill Children mortality rate was 140 out of 1000 live births
Average mother had 7-8 children within five years
dysentery, scarlet fever, whooping cough, influenza, smallpox, and pneumonia killed 30% of kids before age 15
would often be treated by mothers, sisters, and wives
laxatives, bloodletting (cutting a vein open with a lancet) and forced vomiting (emetics) were the common treatments for illness

11. Herbal Remedies
Therapeutic way for physicians, midwives, and women at home to treat families and friends
remedies that were made of herbs, plants and flowers

12. Astrological Medicine
believed that a person's zodiac sign inclined a person to incline different illnesses and diseases
they also thought it had something to do with the four temperaments
choleric(bad tempered; irritable)
melancholy(gloomy state of mind;depressed)
sanguine(optimistic or positive)
Phlegmatic(calm, cool, and composed)

14. Surgery Use knives for blood letting
when muskets were made this brought up a new problem since they now had holes instead of slashes
Amputation was a major surgery back then
other procedures were too dangerous to perform due to the fact that there was no anesthetics

15. First of Blood Transfusion
First done with 2 dogs
quill was inserted into mastiff that was then attached to a spaniel who was cut letting out blood.
The mastiff bleed to death but the spaniel was seen weeks later doing well.
A Bolder attempt was later done on a 15 year old boy who had lost a lot of blood due to blood letting
through a quill he was given a pint of lambs blood
seen weeks later greatly improved

16. Bloodletting
believed that blood was made of four different humors or substances
yellow bile also known
mucus
blake bile
blood
each had said properties of hot/cold and dry/wet
Localized bloodletting
scraped skin
placed heated cup to extract the air
Leeches
sucked the blood out of an inflamed organ
*Each humor was centred in a particular organ—brain, lung, spleen, and gall bladder
*Being ill meant having an imbalance of the four humors
*The hot and wet humor of blood and the hot and dry humor of yellow bile were believed to be naturally stronger in the young. Occasionally if these humors were not weakened and released from the body in the form of sweat, tears, urine, feces, or even sneezing,
* localized blood letting was when a doctor would take a little box with little knives in it and scrape a persons arm. they would then put a heated cup over the cuts to make a vacuum like setting and suck the air out.
* Doc. also used leeches. they thought that were fevers were due to the inflammation of an organ. they would place a leech over the organ and it would suck blood out of it

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