Public health in middle age

Question 1

What was public health like in medieval times?

Answer 1

Poor sanitation, there was only response to epidemics/big diseases, still no knowledge of illness

Question 2

Why were monasteries health good?

Answer 2

Monks were more informed about health, they had a fresh water supply and purified it, everyone had to bath

Question 3

What was still the main reason for illness?

Answer 3

Supernatural ideas-God sent+cured illness, astrology, minority groups blamed antisemitism, miasma theory based on observation

Question 4

What were the most popular methods to cure the black death?

Answer 4

Was sin so king and the church organised special services, prayed a lot, Flagellants avoided by travelling to Flanders then back whipping themselves

Question 5

What were other methods to cure the black death?

Answer 5

Miasma theory (link between illness and bad smell)