Elizabethan Era: Diseases and medicines.

DISEASES In Elizabethan times there were many diseases. Including cholera, typhus, the deadly black plague, and many more. One of histories most deadly killers, cholera, was caused by mostly by bad sanitation. When someone swallowed food or water contaminated by the feces of the victim, the become infected. Any contact with bathroom, clothing, or bedding that was used by the victim is also another way to become infected. Symptoms include extreme diarrhea, sharp muscle cramps, …

…to bed. When he woke up the next morning; the patients who had been treated with boiling oil where feverish and in pain. While the one he had cleaned where sleeping and doing well. Another example is for mental illness. When a person had a mental illness, Jean-Baptiste Denis, believed that when the blood of lambs was injected into the blood system, the patients seemed to recover. This method was stopped when a patient died.