The Black Death | 4. medieval medical thinking
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How Did Medieval Medicine Prevent the Black Death?
The fourteenth century was a time before anti biotics and well equipped hospitals, rigorous public health plans and germ theory. The ideas had comeand many of them had been transmitted from the ancient world to the mediaeval world via the arabic world. And also in europe, there were very important moslem and jewish communities, which took bred these ideas in different ways,. Also had very important medical writers themselves who were very influential.
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