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It is said that 'An apple a day keeps the dentist away.' This has becomea common saying among Society today. We do not stop to think of how it reflectsour outlook of Medicine in our lives. We have come to understand the value ofsimple practices in order to keep ourselves healthy. This is not, however, thecase of Medieval England. Most 'medical practices' of the time were based uponsuperstition, ancient texts, myth, or the direction of the church. Medicalpractices of Medieval England often based upon nothing more than superstitionproved unbeneficial if not harmful to the people of England. Part of the obvious problem was the fact that the common person hadlittle care or sense for improving their own health. The life and livelihood ofan average person was less than desirable even from the time of birth. In the villages chronic inbreeding must have produced many children whostarted life with a built in weakness, either mental or physical. Many woulddie in childhood, but others who grew into manhood, might drag out a uselessexistance, dependent on charity for their sustenance. In general, infantmortality was extremely heavy....Once the child was free to crawl about
Lepers, cripples, and the blind were not uncommon in Medieval England. Most of the therapeuticmeasures included blood letting, steam baths, amulets, spells, hexes, prayers,the king's touch, and polypharmacy known as theriaca. "Two twelfth-century manuscripts, one early, show medicaltreatment, and in both cauterizing looms large. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Perhaps a century or two down the historical road mankind willbe simply disgusted by the way we live. In regard to the malign or beneficent influence. "The concern of Christian theology, onthe other hand, was to cure the soul rather than the body; disease usually wasconsidered supernatural in origin and cured by religious means. It was herethat the medieval superstition reigned supreme. The second manuscript showscauterizing for trouble in the head and in the stomach-a painful remedy!"(Tokeieff 120).
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