Medicine in the Middle Ages
Gone Medieval
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What Kind of Diseases Did These Doctors Deal With?
I think it all comes down to kind of lack of knowledge, because daily life as a whole for these guys was just a recipe for disaster. The towns were incredibly overcrowded. Buildings practically sot one on top of the other. There's no waste disposal system until much later. I feel like they really got into the, you know, the nitigree and just the dirty stuff that nobody wanted to do. And so what kind of problems led to the kind of mediaeval illnesses that these doctors had to treat? i don't feel thike castles were much better.
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