Death and disease
By: Alex Woolf
Series: Medieval realms
Publisher: Wayland
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750284691
Subjects: Mortality; Juvenile literature; History; Life expectancy; Medieval Medicine; Diseases and history; Médecine médiévale; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Maladies et histoire
Description: This title gives readers an in-depth look at death and disease in medieval times. You can find out what ordinary people did when they fell ill and discover the herbs and potions doctors used to treat the plague and other illnesses. It also tells you about the first medical schools in Europe and about how medicine progressed in five hundred years of medieval living.
Notes: Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Key Stage 4.
Table of contents: title: Includes: Health and disease in 1000 AD; title: The legacy of the Ancient World; title: The influence of the church; title: Medicine in the Middle Ages; title: The treatment of illness and disease; title: Famine; title: Death in medieval times; title: Medieval diseases: Leprosy; title: Medieval diseases: Plague; title: The causes of the black death; title: The black death; title: Explanations for the black death; title: Treatments for the plague; title: The plague returns; title: Consequences of the plague; title: The birth of modern medicine; title: Medical schools; title: Surgery and surgeons; title: Hospitals; title: Public health and sanitation; title: The dawn of a new era.