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Medicine through time
Black Death
Causes
Many people believed that the black death was a punishment from god they also found out that there was an unusual positioning of some planets which many thought to e the cause of the black death but the main natural causes attributed to the black death was impure air people believed that the air would spread around and if entered the body they would get the disease
Treatments
There were many treatments for the black death the main one promoted by the church was asking god for forgiveness but the main natural treatment was bleeding and purging to balance out the humours or they would try and stop the foul air by using sweet smelling items or using fires to stop the bad air
Prevention
Supernatural: Many people would pay to god and show god how sorry you are for your sins by self-flagellation this will show you are sorry for your sins and then this will stop him from causing the black death to happen to you
Natural means: people were told to go to travel elsewhere a long way off fast and come back very slow to try and avoid the bad air but if you could not do this then hold something sweet smelling to your nose to stop the bad air from entering
Common Beliefs: This was to avoid people who had the plague by any means but other than that many people would do anything to stop getting the disease
Government actions
the government did not do much other than put in quarantine laws to stop people mixing with those who had the black death
Great Plague
Causes
Miasma was the most commonly believed cause and very few people believed in an imbalance of the humours also people realised that the disease could be spread from person to person
Treatments
The treatments were similar to black death but here they tried to transfer the disease to other animals such as chickens or they would try and sweat the disease out
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Government action
the government tried a lot harder to stop the spread by closing theatres, killing animals, cleaned the streets, carts collected the dead and buried them, fasting and prayer days were orderd
Cancer
Treatments
Radiotherapy to try and shrink the tumour or prevent its growth
chemotherapy to shrink the tumour or prevent it from returning
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Government Action
the government tried to stop lung cancer by: banning smoking in all workplaces, banning people from smoking in cars carrying people under the age of 18, raising the legal age for buying tobacco, increase taxation on tobacco products, banning tobacco advertising, advertising the dangers of smoking and by forcing all shops to remove any cigarette products from display
Prevention
the only prevention that took place was from the government banning products and advertising this is written under government action
Cholera
Prevention
People tried to clean the streets and their houses to stop the spread of cholera through spontaneous generation and miasma
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Government Action
in 1848 the government published the public health act of 1848 that suggested that cities should provide clean water supplies and to clean the city up but this was not made compulsory until the 1875 public health act