The Black Death | 4. medieval medical thinking
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What Methods and Remedies Did Health Care Practitioners Have?
Blood letting was a preventive to stay healthy, but it was also a treatment when you were sick. The islamic physician iben catima gave his take on blood letting in his medical treatise on the plague. Iben catima recommended bleeding a patient two or three times a day ifqut one's powers and age permit. Other health care techniques were even less scientifically viable by modern standards. But as elma told me, that doesn't mean that we should dismiss them as nonsense because they made good sense within the more flexible medical frameworks of the time.
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