Shakespear
The doctors and medicine in the 1500's and 1600's was strange and pathetic. There wasn't really a sanitation system in Elizabethan England. Garbage was toss into the streets and left there for days. This then would attract rats and the rats would then spread the plague, which would then spread across the country side. They had many diseases, severe diseases like the scarlet fever, diphtheria, leprosy, scurbby, measles, chicken pox, and syphilis. Many with no cures because of the docters they had in the modern days. Children with the plague, chicken pox and diphtheria were abandoned bcause familys feared they would pass it on. These diseases were often brought back from explorers from long voyages or it was because they had a poorly balanced diet. They mostly ate bread and meat, drank a lot of wine and ate cheese but ate very few fruits and vegetables.
They had different
methods for curing medical problems. Physician cookes, apothecary or a herbalist, used homemade mixtures of......
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