England saw numerous epidemics in Elizabethan days. Queen Elizabeth herself came down with smallpox, though a mild case of it. The average person lived to be 42 years old. Someone who had money may have lived longer.
Research what illnesses and health issues people suffered from that may have contributed to their death. How could hygiene habits have also brought about illness and death during the Elizabethan era? Post your findings.
Health and hygiene was very poor in the elizabethan times and diseases like the bubonic plague was very common and spread like a wild fire. People in the Elizabethan times didn't have soap so they only washed dishes with water and for the low shortage of water they might only shower twice a year!
ReplyDeleteBack then it was harder to bathe then it is today. People who barely had money could not take showers a lot
ReplyDeleteI do not know about you, but generally, one shower or bath per week is terrible hygiene by today's standards. In fact, anything more than every other day is considered unsanitary. Unfortunately, bathing was not quite as simple during the Elizabethan times as it is today.
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ReplyDeleteIt is little surprise that the plague was the most dreaded disease of Shakespeare's time. Carried by fleas living on the fur of rats, the plague swept through London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3, and 1603 (Singman, 52). The outbreaks in 1563 and 1603 were the most ferocious, each wiping out over one quarter of London's population.
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Elizabethans had various cures for these diseases or what they thought were cures like, tobacco, dried toad,bleed out the victim and arsenic.They also died of the lack of hygiene. They didn’t wash their hands and rarely ever took a bath. They didn’t brush their teeth or their hairs. In the Elizabethan times people blamed every weird event as the work of witches. The health was bad for the common person in Shakespearean times. This was due to a number of factors such as the open sewage system, where the sewage was thrown out the window into an open ditch on the side of the road where it would probably lead down to a river. There was no plumbing so people had to get their water from a well. The rich people would have doctors available but the poorer people would rely on good willed people like churches to help cure them of sickness. There was a lack of knowledge about diseases and so many strange cures would emerge. Many of the cures were passed down through families, and contained natural ingredients that were readily available. Common people would not know of bacteria and the need of hygiene and so this was why many people would get sick. Another factor was the crowding of housing, people in the country would therefore be better off health wise.
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zabethan Medicine was extremely basic in an era when terrible illnesses such as the Bubonic Plague (Black Death ) were killing nearly one third of the population
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People use to die young because Elizabethan Medicine was extremely basic in an era when terrible illnesses such as the Bubonic Plague (Black Death ) were killing nearly one third of the population.
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Life expectancy was so short in The Elizabethan Age because or the diseases and their hygiene and the way they took care of their health, some of the diseases they had such as The Bubonic Plague, smallpox, syphillis, typhus and malaria. They didn't clean themselves often or bathe well. They bathed about 2 items a year and didn't use soap.
ReplyDelete(Jessica and Karissa) One of the reasons why people died so young because they hardly ever bathed.There was no soap to take a shower. A lot of people died from the Black Plague too. It was so dangerous.
ReplyDeleteMedicine was basic, Physicians had no idea what caused the terrible illnesses and diseases. The beliefs about the causes of illnesses were based on the ancient teachings of Aristotle and Hippocrates. The Physicians paid attention to a patients bodily fluids, called Humours, which explains the reason why patients where subjected to 'bleeding'. Other beliefs of the Elizabethan Physicians centred around Astrology. http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
ReplyDeleteThe upper class bathed usually the lower class bathed once a week
ReplyDeleteThey didn't take care of themselves, they only showered once a year, and they were all sick
ReplyDeleteBubonic Plague ( the Black Death )
ReplyDeleteBubonic Plague was treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm poultice of butter, onion and garlic. Various other remedies were tried including tobacco, arsenic, lily root and dried toad!
Head Pains
Head Pains were treated with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and bay.
Stomach Pains and Sickness
Stomach pains and sickness were treated with wormwood, mint, and balm.
Lung Problems
Lung problems given the medical treatment of liquorice and comfrey.
Wounds
Vinegar was widely used as a cleansing agent as it was believed that it would kill disease.
Evelyn Salmon Victor Lopez
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
Good examples :D
DeleteElizabethan Medicine was extremely basic in an era when terrible illnesses such as the Bubonic Plague (Black Death ) were killing nearly one third of the population.http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
ReplyDeleteDuring the elizabethen era the Black Plague was the most deadliest diesses during that time. It killed at least one third of the population
DeleteBack then there were different illnesses that couldn't be cured like the Black Death and other illness
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There were bad diseases such as the bubonic plague and thyphoid most wounds and diseases were treated in unsanitary places
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ReplyDeleteLung problems given the medical treatment of liquorice and comfrey.
Some of the resins that people died was from a disease called small pocs this was a very bad thing because it was worse than chicken pocs. People did not have proper health conditions to live in for long amounts of time.
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ReplyDeleteThe water that they took baths in was considered unfit to drink. So do you think that a good bath in such water would be very hygienic at all? It probably was not.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the worst outbreaks of smallpox occurred two years before Shakespeare's birth, in 1562. Queen Elizabeth herself then 29 were attacked by the virus.
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ReplyDeleteBathed twice a year if not once a year
And only rinsed dishes with water because they did not have no soap
It was harder to shower back then than it is today. People who's was poor didn't shower a lot
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Delete"This above all:to thine own self be true". This quote means you should be true to your self in life.
ReplyDeletePeople in the Elizabethen era died at such a young age because they would not take showers often and not use sope to clean the selfs when they do. Germs would build up on their skin and start to eat it. Women died at young ages as well because of birth. Birth was the most common way for women to die.
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Every few months people take baths
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