The Black Death | 4. medieval medical thinking
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The Pandemic - What Did the Doctors Do?
In the 13 forties, there's no evidence of full on quarantines in the sense we'd recognize to day. But that doesn't necessarily mean that more informal means of social distancing weren't used. And elme suggests that this common sense understanding about disease being spread from person to person would have shaped other behaviours too.
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