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Late Medieval doctors used a wide range of techinques and analyses to diagnose disease. They also had a fairly wide range of treatments available.
Points to Ponder:
-- Review the texts of medical theory by Hippocrates and Ibn Ridwan and look for the ways in which doctors examined patients and diagnosed disease. Then examine the following images and texts to gain a clearer picture of the ways people treated and prevented disease. Make sure to consider any associated questions.
| Advice
on the treatment of the plague |
IMAGES:
| One plague symptom: Upset stomach |
| A doctor examining a urine flask
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| A doctor makes a housecall on a plague
victim |
| Another housecall | A
medicinal herb: Mandrake root | Medicine
and Astrology |
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