The Black Death | 4. medieval medical thinking
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american scandal is the podcast from wandery that brings you the most notorious stories from the country past. In this episode, we're going to be taking a look fourteenth century medicine and asking, how do you fight a disease when you don't know what it is or what causes it? i spoke to doctor elmer brenner, a specialist inm eval and early modern medicine at london's welcome collection for his perspective on dealing with pandemic illness prior to coven 19. We've got so many tools at our disposal and so much knowledge, and yet we have been affected by major pandemic,. despite our best efforts, we've been powerless to prevent its spreading.
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