Part 2 - 17th + 18th century medicine

Question 1

Treatments for CII in 1685 when he became ill?

Answer 1

58 drugs, purged, bled, blistered and cauterised

Question 2

Treatments for ordinary people?

Answer 2

Depended on what they could afford
Barber-surgeons, apothecaries, wise women, quacks
Bloodletting, herbal remedies

Question 3

3 beliefs about causes of Great Plague 1665?

Answer 3

Punishment from God, movements of planets and bad air or miasma

Question 4

3 treatments for plague?

Answer 4

Bled with leeches, strong smells, medieval remedies to draw out poison

Question 5

3 ways to deal with plague?

Answer 5

• Move from city to countryside
• Links between dirt and disease
• Quarantine, watchmen, mass graves, sweep streets, animals banned from streets, trade between towns stopped