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Question 1

Which ideas about treatment continued from the 1500-1700 (2)

Answer 1

• Humoral Imbalance continued, so the treatment for it also continued.( Purging, blood letting and sweating)
• Herbal remedies chosen because of their colour or size (yellow herbs for jaundice red for smallpox)

Question 2

Which ideas about treatment Changed from the 1500-1700 (2)

Answer 2

-Transference new idea about being able to transfer disease to other animals or objects, people used to sleep in sheep’s bedrooms to spread disease to them.

• New herbs were discovered in the new world the belief was that if that wherever the disease come from the same place would have the cure for it.

CINCHONA bark (Peru) was used to treat malaria, but needed to continue after the disease.

• SARSAPARILLA - used to treat the great pox