16 Century Medicine“A plague o’ both your houses,”(Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet) Alyssa and Kayla

Plague• People were told to stay inside• no cure people would die • spread easily

Bubonic Plague (Black death)

Symptoms of bubonic plague:

• Chills

• Fever

• Muscle pain

• Headache

• Seizures

Treatment for bubonic plague:

• Need immediate treatment, if not treated within 24 hours, death may occur

• Antibiotics

Measles and MelancholySymptoms of measles:

• People mistake it for smallpox

• Bloodshot eyes

• Rash

• Sore throat

• White spots inside the mouth

Treatment for Measles:

• No specific treatment

• Bed rest

• Tylenol

Melancholy• thought to have been caused by black bile

or a bad conscienceo for black bile people would blood let,

purge, and stay in pleasant surroundings

o for a bad conscious faith in god was recommended

• writer thought that it was caused byo excessive passiono love sicknesso other mental disturbances

SyphilisSymptoms of syphilis:

• Fever

• Sore throat

• Vague feeling of weakness

• Weightloss

• Patchy hair loss

Treatment for syphilis:

• there is no home treatment

• need prescribed medicine from doctor

• antibiotics

• blood tests are required

Influenza Symptoms of influenza:

• Infection through nose, throat and lungs

• Flu like symptoms

• Headache

• Bodychills

• Sore throat/ dry cough

Treatment for influenza:

• Tylenol

• Advil

• Lots of rest

• Drink a lot of liquids

• Don’t drink/ smoke

Scarlet feverSymptoms of scarlet fever:

• Rash (spreads all over body within two days)

• high fever

• caused by bacteria in strep throat

• most often occurs between ages 2-10

Treatment for Scarlet fever:

• antibiotics

Treatment can include:

• ear infections

• kidney damage

• liver damage

Smallpox and MalariaSymptoms of smallpox:

● Backache● Highly infections● Burning fever followed by an eruption of

multiple pustules● Vomiting● 30% of the time death occurs

Treatment of smallpox:

• If smallpox vaccine is given within 1-4 days it could be stopped or make it less severe

• There is no specific drug to treat it

• Antibiotics may shorten duration of the disease

Symptoms of malaria:● High fevers● Shaking chill● Nausea● Sweating/ Vomiting● Flu like symptoms

Treatment of malaria:

• Different drugs for each stage of the malaria

• Primaquine

• Chloroquine

• Mefloquine

Midwifery• women that helped during childbirth

o higher class with husband in high powero respectable women in the community

• when they arrived the father would have to leave the room

• Would bring the child to the priest

Ill Children• mortality rate was 140 out of 1000 live births• Average mother had 7-8 children within five

years• dysentery, scarlet fever, whooping cough,

influenza, smallpox, and pneumonia killed 30% of kids before age 15

• would often be treated by mothers, sisters, and wives

• laxatives, bloodletting (cutting a vein open with a lancet) and forced vomiting (emetics) were the common treatments for illness

Herbal Remedies• Therapeutic way for physicians, midwives, and

women at home to treat families and friends• remedies that were made of herbs, plants and

flowers

Astrological Medicine• believed that a person's zodiac sign inclined a person to incline

different illnesses and diseases• they also thought it had something to do with the four

temperamentso choleric(bad tempered; irritable)o melancholy(gloomy state of mind;depressed)o sanguine(optimistic or positive)o Phlegmatic(calm, cool, and composed)

Surgery• Use knives for blood letting• when muskets were made this brought up a new

problem since they now had holes instead of slashes

• Amputation was a major surgery back then• other procedures were too dangerous to perform

due to the fact that there was no anesthetics

First of Blood Transfusion• First done with 2 dogs• quill was inserted into mastiff that was then attached to a spaniel

who was cut letting out blood. • The mastiff bleed to death but the spaniel was seen weeks later

doing well. • A Bolder attempt was later done on a 15 year old boy who had

lost a lot of blood due to blood letting• through a quill he was given a pint of lambs blood• seen weeks later greatly improved

Bloodletting• believed that blood was made of four different humors or

substanceso yellow bile also known o mucuso blake bileo blood

• each had said properties of hot/cold and dry/wet• Localized bloodletting

o scraped skino placed heated cup to extract the air

• Leecheso sucked the blood out of an inflamed organ

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