1491 Caxton published Journals of Health . Vagabonds, idle and suspected persons shall be set in the stocks for three days and three nights and have none other sustenance but bread and water and then shall be put out of Town. Every beggar suitable to work shall resort to the Hundred where he last dwelled, is best known, or was born and there remain upon the pain aforesaid . Beggars who were too infirm to work were to remain in their Hundred and be permitted to beg. 1495 Marischal College, Aberdeen, founded.
Syphilis spreads through Europe.
In 1497 Aberdeen passed a statute to segregate women infected with syphilis.