history of medicen

Question 1

what was the Mayor’s proclamation 1421

Answer 1

it required every man to clean the street that was Infront of his house every Saturday or pay a 12 penny fine

Question 2

name some of the hygiene problems that was faced by medieval Britain

Answer 2

their wells for drinking water was near to cesspits for dumping sewage.
they would go to the toilet in the river

Question 3

what where symptoms of the black death

Answer 3

black blobos around where the person was bites
coughing
temperature
headaches
vomiting

Question 4

what did they believe that coursed the black death

Answer 4

making eye contact with the sick
came from privys this where toilets that hung over the streets
earthquackes in china
Jews poisoned wells

Question 5

what did they do to treat the black death

Answer 5

washed the body
they would be washed in vinegar and rose water
bleeding

Question 6

what would they do to try to prevent the black death

Answer 6

they would avoid eating and drinking to much
avoid hot baths
don’t eat hot food in summer and eat cucumber and spinach