Getting ill in Tudor times.

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Can you imagine filling a deaf ear with grease?

Put red curtains around the bed of someone
suffering from Smallpox?

They had no idea what caused disease.

Scroll down the page till you come to Tudor Medicine.

One of the main treatments for illness was bleeding. Making a cut in your arm and taking some blood from your body. Other things like purging (making you sick) were thought to help.

Can you see the blood being collected in the bowl?

 

They had no idea how the heart worked or how
blood circulated around the body.