medieval - preventions

Question 1

believed disease could be prevented by following religious practices (3)

Answer 1

living life free of sin
wearing religious charms
prayer

Question 2

people purified the air to counteract miasma (bad air) by (3)

Answer 2

carrying posies - sweet smelling herbs and flowers
lighting fires - driving away bad smells
ringing bells - to keep the air moving

Question 3

people worked hard to keep the streets clean to purify the air as well by (4)

Answer 3

building public latrines (toilets)
punishing people if they threw their rubbish (can include human excrement) into the streets
making butchers dispose of their waste outside of city walls
employing rakers, a person paid to pick up waste from the streets and dispoding it