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- - - - A physician would consult star charts, looking at when the patient was born and when they fell ill to try and identify what the cause of illness was.
      - The Church frowned upon the use of astrology to diagnose illness, but when the Black Death arrived in England in 1348, astrology was widely used by many.
      - The alignment of the planets and stars was seen as important when considering how to diagnose illness.
    - - people recovering from an illness was seen as proof that god existed and that it was a miracle
      - It was also believed that God sent illness to purify your soul or to test your faith.
      - The Church often explained famine as a punishment from God. Therefore, many also simply blamed illness as a punishment from God also.
      - People in Medieval England were very religious, and the Church formed the centre of the community
    - - Many followed that if you were ill, your humours must be out of balance, and therefore action must be taken to balance them.
      - The humours were also linked not only to seasons and the four elements, but also, personality traits.
      - The Theory of the Four Humours, founded by Hippocrates and developed by Galen continued into the Medieval era.
    - - at the time it would be called polloution of the air
      - was one the biggest beliefs about the cause of disease at the time
      - miasma is the belief that the bad air caused illness and disease
  - - - They should’ve burnt the bodies as burning would get rid of the disease, but they buried them, spreading them further
      - 7000 people lived in Norwich in 1347, but by 1349, there were only 2000 remaining.
      - Plague carts - people infected were cordoned in their houses, and the plague carts came around, saying ‘bring out your dead’
      - It would take England 400 years to get back to pre-black death numbers
      - Almost half the population died
    - - boils over the body
      - death
      - swelling on the groin and armpits
      - buboes
    - - They believed this was the plague of God - like Noah’s Ark
      - They believed the bad air caused it
      - Fleas on the backs of rats - carried over from France. The sailors had fleas on them too
    - - strapping live chickens to the buboes
      - eating 10 year old treacle
    - - hung sweet smelling herbs above the door- to drive away miasma
      - quarantine laws
  - - - apothecarys
      - wise women
      - physicians
    - - barber surgeons
    - - 1123-st barthomelews hospital
      - care for the sick was mainly done in houses