Medicine In A Medieval Life
The medieval life was an unordinary life for us. The people lived without electricity, did not have internet and we still extremely happy with everything. Even tho medicine was terrible, the church had enormous power they still had fun.
Patients were treated terribly since they had no medication at the time, people that had smallpox were given chicken broth as medication which of course had no medical effect. The doctors believed that disease was spread by bad odors and body diseases resulted from sins and should. The plague which originated in the 1330’s in China had killed 25 million people which is one third of Europe’s population. People were dying because there was no medication at the time and that meant that if a patient had even a little scar and it got infected the patient had a good chance of dying. The only medication medication that they had was given to the royalty. Anyone that was not in the royalty or nobility was treated with chicken broth which led to an enourmous number of deaths.
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The types of medieval entertainment varied according to status but included feasts, banquets, jousts and tournaments, plays, fairs, games and sports and, hunting. the feasts were enormous with a lot of food, dancing and entertainment including entertainers like clowns which were call Jesters, the jet-stream entertained the court. While everyone else could enjoy the rest of the entertainers including acrobats, mummers who were theater people that were doing the plays. There was loud music that was played on the Recorder, Cittern, Shawn and Quitars. The folk music was playing around the whole village and was sung by many of the members of the village. Joust tournaments was an interesting sport to watch to see how the nobility had faced off in a one on one battle on a horse with the objective to knock the opponent of the horse with a
Patients were treated terribly since they had no medication at the time, people that had smallpox were given chicken broth as medication which of course had no medical effect. The doctors believed that disease was spread by bad odors and body diseases resulted from sins and should. The plague which originated in the 1330’s in China had killed 25 million people which is one third of Europe’s population. People were dying because there was no medication at the time and that meant that if a patient had even a little scar and it got infected the patient had a good chance of dying. The only medication medication that they had was given to the royalty. Anyone that was not in the royalty or nobility was treated with chicken broth which led to an enourmous number of deaths.
The church was a enormous …show more content…
The types of medieval entertainment varied according to status but included feasts, banquets, jousts and tournaments, plays, fairs, games and sports and, hunting. the feasts were enormous with a lot of food, dancing and entertainment including entertainers like clowns which were call Jesters, the jet-stream entertained the court. While everyone else could enjoy the rest of the entertainers including acrobats, mummers who were theater people that were doing the plays. There was loud music that was played on the Recorder, Cittern, Shawn and Quitars. The folk music was playing around the whole village and was sung by many of the members of the village. Joust tournaments was an interesting sport to watch to see how the nobility had faced off in a one on one battle on a horse with the objective to knock the opponent of the horse with a