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Medicine in the Middle Ages

Gone Medieval

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How Did They Get Sick?

Yeido: There was so much disease that was spreading, they just didn't understand it. Entrails from the butcher's shop chamber pots were emptied out into the street. So where people as are making their way, you know, they're getting feces and what not thrown out the windows. Yeido: But idon't also don't think that they wanted to be walking through waste either.

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