HOW DID THEY TRY AND CURE THE 1665 PLAGUE?
Primary Source: Famous and Effectual Medicine to Cure the Plague.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service 2007 January (TCP phase 1)
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Famous and Effectual Medicine to Cure the Plague
The doctors of the time published papers like the one pictured to the left. These papers outlined how the plague doctors tried to treat and cure the plague.
Most of the treatments were based on superstition, with only a few treatments having any medical basis.
Some of the treatments that doctors recommended during the time:
Most of the treatments were based on superstition, with only a few treatments having any medical basis.
Some of the treatments that doctors recommended during the time:
- Carry Flowers & Wear Perfume
- Smoke Strong Smelling Tobacco
- Drink Hot Drinks
- Carry Lucky Charms
- Use Laxatives to 'eliminate' disease
- Coat Victims with Mercury and Put In Oven
- Drinks Various Elixirs