Medicine In The Dark Ages

It’s the 1500’s of europe’s history and the Rome has fallen taking education and bringing Isolation to the cultures of Europe. This is a time where disease spread like wildfire and medicine was being put to the test on how effective they were. Many of the methods used were very brutal and sometimes ineffective because of poisons being used as a cure. The understanding of the human body was not completely understood and they blamed most of it on superstition. Because of religious authority and fear of angering god they couldn't really learn more about what the human body does.

The dark ages the time of cultural isolation, famie, loss of education, the pluege, and the time where medicine was more of a poison than a cure. Their remedies that they used actually killed people all the time then healing people for example mercury was used as a medicine in the past by the early Greeks and Persians as a elixir and a topical medication that they believed gave immortality and allowed them to walk on water. The people in the dark ages thought that it helped prevent infection, but to their surprise it killed them because mercury is toxic and ingesting it can lead to death.

Dung was also used by people in the medieval times as medicine that made more people sick. According to http://www.history.com ” donkey,
According to https://www.britannica.com/topic/leeching “Leeching, the application of a living leech to the skin in order to initiate blood flow or deplete blood from a localized area of the body. Through the 19th century leeching was frequently practiced in Europe, Asia, and America to deplete the body of quantities of blood, in a manner similar to bloodletting.” Becuase leeches could be a attached to other organisms like humans with diseases from their previous host this method was completely insufficient to