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Medieval Peoples health - Coggle Diagram
Medieval Peoples health
Public health
The poor tended to die relatively early
The majority of people were peasants
If the harvests fail then poor people die
St Anthony's Fire
Ergotism
Only affected peasants
Transmitted through rye bread
Water was often unclean
Light ale was drunk instead
Living conditions
The poor
Lived in huts
No glass
Hole in roof to let out smoke
Cold
Usually hungry
The rich
Lived in big houses
Glass
Warm
Servants
Rarely hungry
Responses to the Black Death
Miasma
Burning incense
Poses in pockets
Religion
Last rites
Special services
Travelling priest's blessings
George the III
Clean the streets of London
Fled to the country side
Other treatments
Potentially effective
Drinking vinegar
Sitting close to their fire
Ineffective
Tying toads to buboes
Tying chickens to buboes