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Medieval Medicine and the Plague

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By Lynne Elliott
Publisher Crabtree Publishing Company
Medieval Medicine and the Plague
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Medicine was a mysterious art in the Middle Ages and had not yet benefited from the scientific discoveries we take for granted today. This astonishing new book illustrates how death and incurable disease were considered a common part of medieval life. Young readers will be fascinated by the history of the Black Death, or the Plague, which killed millions of people in Europe, and why medical treatments in the Middle Ages were often worse than the disease. Topics include a timeline of medical changes through the Middle Ages common medieval diseases and their causes, such as smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and leprosy The Back Plague and the modern explanation for it the Four Humors operations and treatments such as bloodletting, cupping, cauterizing medicine makers such as apothecaries and housewives famous doctors such as Hippocrates, Galen, Rhazes and Avicenna womens place in medicine

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6240 words6,240 words
32 pages32 pages
Lexile IG1150LLexile IG1150L
Grade 5 to 6Grade 5 to 6
Age 10-11Age 10-11
Published 2005Published 2005

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Hear it dissect Hear it septicemic Hear it cauterize Hear it leprosy Hear it pneumonic Hear it anesthetize Hear it choleric Hear it cleanse Hear it hospitaller Hear it bloodletting Hear it cataract Hear it trepanning Hear it cloudiness Hear it melancholic Hear it throughput Hear it phlegmatic Hear it clearness Hear it exorcise Hear it diphtheria Hear it dissection Hear it convulse Hear it anise Hear it inadequate Hear it hippocratic Hear it cumin Hear it lymphatic Hear it phlegm Hear it surcoat Hear it bubonic Hear it balsam Hear it macabre Hear it chamomile Hear it umbilical Hear it dysentery Hear it saffron Hear it apothecary
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Book ISBN:

9780778713906

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