Disease In The Elizabethan Era

Over many of years the world has faced problems concerning health. Many scientists and health experts have worked together to better our nation 's health care. English Physician and Scientist Edward Jenner, a small country doctor, who is well known around the world for his innovative contribution to immunization and the ultimate eradication of smallpox. (2005, Baylor University Medical Center.) It is believed that smallpox appeared around 10,000 B.C. Smallpox was introduced to Europe sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries and was frequently epidemic during the Middle Ages. Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. During his early school years, Edward developed a strong interest in science and nature that continued throughout his life. Jenner’s interest in natural history and animal biology sharpened his medical understanding of the role of human-animal trans-species boundaries in disease transmission. He experienced the proverbial “Eureka”-like moment sometime during the 1770s. At age 13 he was apprenticed to a country surgeon and apothecary in Sodbury, near Bistol. The record shows that it was there Jenner heard a dairymaid say, " I shall never have smallpox for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly pockmarked face." While Jenner 's interest in the effects of cowpox began during his apprenticeshire with George Harwickle, it wasn 't until 1796 before he made the first step in a long process of smallpox would be exposed. Jenner

During the seventeenth century, the scientific revolution in Europe was at its peak, changing people’s lives through the new techniques of the scientific method. Citizens of western civilizations had previously used religion as the lens through which they perceived their beliefs and customs in their communities. Before the scientific revolution, science and religion were intertwined, and people were taught to accept religious laws and doctrines without questioning; the Church was the ultimate authority on how the world worked. However, during this revolution, scientists were inspired to learn and understand the laws of the universe had created, a noble and controversial move toward truth seeking. The famous scientists of the time, such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton, were known to be natural philosophers, intending to reveal God’s mystery and understand (through proof) the majesty of God. Throughout previous centuries, people had hypothesized how the world and natural phenomenon may work, and new Protestant ideals demanded constant interrogation and examination. Nevertheless, some of these revelations went against the Church’s teachings and authority. If people believed the Church could be wrong, then they could question everything around them, as well. As a result, the introduction of the scientific method, a process by which scientists discovered and proved new theories, was revolutionary because it distinguished what could be proved as real from what was simply

The medicinal practices and problems of the Elizabethan Era were very important to the people, although they are very different from those of today. There were many different beliefs and diseases, like the Plague. Medicine was not an exact science and was related to Alchemy (Chemistry). Here, some of the many practices and beliefs of the Elizabethan Era will be discussed.

Imagine a world, with no kayos, and soon get a mystery disease, that someone wouldn’t know it would kill. The Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death, would come and go, killing millions of people. This deadly disease was the biggest time that had the most deaths according to it. It came from the Black Sea, and soon would invade villages, whipping them out within a week. Caused by infected fleas, the Black Plague was a painful disease that left huge black spots on the skin and killed millions of people during the Elizabethan Era.

All throughout history nations all over the world have dealt with deadly diseases, but one in particular brought out the fear in the nations of Europe, the bubonic plague or as others call it, the black death. During the thirteenth century, medicine was not as developed as it is now, causing England to suffer more than others. According to Cantor (2002) the European nations encountered the bubonic plague in its most brutal state during 1348 to 1349, taking out about a third of Europe’s population (pp. 6-7). He continues on by claiming that one big question to this event was whether or not the plague was the full cause to the loss of lives or if there was another cause along with it (p. 11). Cantor (2002) also explained that the reason the black plague stopped in Europe around the eighteenth century could possibly have been from an introduction to a new species of rats, the gray rat (p. 13). Even though there is controversy based around the plague being spread by rats and how it was stopped by isolation, it may have taught countries useful strategies and ways to grow stronger.

During the Medieval era there were many diseases. Because of the lack of hygiene in the medieval times, diseases would spread like a wildfire. Just to name a few common diseases that happened in this time, there was the Black Death, leprosy, measles, and typhoid fever. These were most likely transported because of dirty bedsheets and blankets, unwashed clothing, and rodents. The treatments for these diseases and other things, such as medicine for stomach pains, medicine for wounds, and medicine for headaches, are different from today’s standards.

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that spread throughout Medieval England during the years 1348-1350. The Black Death is believed to have killed between 30-45% of people in England alone. There were numerous ideas if what the cause of the disease was, however was a bacteria-born disease from the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which was carried in the fleas off infected black rats and spread to Europe by Genoese trading ships from Asia. Consequently, due to the severity of the Black Death, it could be considered a “turning point” in England which this paper will be assessing, in respect to the Black Death’s influence socially, assessing standards of living and social unrest and economically, assessing production levels and wages. It will also be important to consider the political role the Church and government played during the period, as well as other factors that may have influenced a change at the period in question.

In the middle ages one of the biggest impact on society was the black plague. The black plague was huge, and went on for a long time. It had a lot of BACKGROUND and symptoms it, it effected the middle ages a ton, and the people came up with many weird was of trying to find a cure for it. The plague killed about 25 million people, about 1/3 of the population! Hope you learn a lot from this.

Addison Christ 2/4/16 The Black Death In October 1347 the Black Death (also known as the Bubonic Plague) arrived in Europe at the Sicilian port of Messina. The Black Death is a very contagious disease and it killed more than 20 million people. It was the worst thing that the people saw in their time period.

Mainly this resource was explaining the doctors role in dealing with the black plague, what they wore in protecting themselves from the disease. Explained the lack of sanitation in large cities and towns , that helped in spreading the disease, the clothing of the doctors were scary, they wore bird like masks with long beaks filled with aromatic items to keep the smell of the bodies and the diseased air around them. Sanitation was a problem . open sewers and garbage were everywhere , which contributed to the spread of the disease . The physicians had no idea what caused the terrible illnesses and disease . Other beliefs of the Elizabethan doctors believe in astrology, the best they could do was bled the patient or give them special herbs

In the Middle Ages, nothing caused more chaos than the Black Plague. It was a large disease that spread all across Western Europe causing one-third of the population to disappear. As the Black Plague spread further and further, more problems erupted. People did not know how to react to the plague so they killed their neighbors. Cities were forced to raise taxes to pay for the expenses of the plague, but nothing could solve the large amount of debt that was due. The Black Plague led to the decline of feudalism because the problems it caused, led to more issues.

As a child William Shakespeare saw many plays, mostly because of his father, John Shakespeare who was in charge of censoring content before a play was shown to the townspeople. Because of this, John Shakespeare took his family to many plays. It was those plays that encouraged William, along with his knowledge of mythology and fairy tales, to become a writer. He enjoyed using new words such as, alligator (Spanish el lagarto), critic (Greek krinein), and anchovy (Spanish anchova) are a few of them. In 1586 William arrived in London and began working on play writing. This would last until the theaters closed in June of 1592 due to the Black Death having spread into London, the theaters would not reopen until 1594. During this time Shakespeare

Medicine in the Medieval Period In the 14th Century, trade around Europe was increasing ships regularly and travelled from the Mediterranean to other parts of Europe. In 1348 one ship brought a devastating plague to England. Source 1-Written by a monk from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, in the 1350's: "

The Black Death has a notorious fame for being a devastating epidemic that wipes out millions of people in the world. The pernicious bacteria called Yersinia pestis is the culprit of the Bubonic plague. William Shakespeare, a poet, playwright, and writer, was one who had encountered this disease. Although he had not succumbed to the plague, his community was deeply affected by it. A prevalent problem during Shakespeare's time included the plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, which impacted Shakespeare's work, Shakespeare's family, and London theaters.

Often people would brew ointments with herbs, plants, and roots in an attempt to cure illness, similar to how Professor Snape brews potions to achieve the same goal. In this sense, magic appears to be a precursor to modern science, which here is defined as rather than a mythical practice with no relation to the physical world (Raman, 598). Indeed, many of the great scientists we know of today were strong believers in magic. The celebrated astronomers Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler believed in astrology, the esteemed chemist Robert Boyle believed in angels and the possibility of a philosopher’s stone to transmute lead into gold, and the influential scientist Isaac Newton had a fascination with alchemy (Highfield, 127). This crossover between science and magic suggests that for the people of the Medieval and Renaissance era, there was little distinction between magic and science.