developments with dealing with disease

Question 1

what where medical ideas and beliefs in the seventieth and eighteenth century like?

Answer 1

were a mixture of traditional and new, more scientific treate,ente

Question 2

what did nicholas culpepper do?

Answer 2

• wrote the complete herbal
• used plants and astrology in treatments
• highly critical of bloodletting and purging

Question 3

who is thomas sydenham?

Answer 3

-english doctor who stressed the careful observation of symptoms and was critical of quack medicine

Question 4

what treatments were used in seventeenth and eighteenth?

Answer 4

• bloodletting
• herbal remedies e.g. new natural medicines such as the bark if the cinchona tree from south america which contains quinn for malaria
• opium from turkey
• discovery by the military , john woodall in1617 of lemons and limes to treat scurvy

Question 5

whats quacks?

Answer 5

showy, travelling salesmen who sold all sorts of. edicines and ‘cure-alls’