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They believed that diseases were caused by evil spirits
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Doctors would perform ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
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digitalis is used to treat heart conditions. Quinine is used to control fevers, muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine is used to relive muscle spasms, mostly used for GI pain. Morphine is used for treating severe pain.
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The church believed that life and death were only in God’s hands. -
The primary treatment was prayer. They occasionally used herbal mixtures.
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- Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
- Smallpox
- Diphtheria
- Syphilis
- Turberculosis
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there was building of universities and medical schools, searches for new ideas about disease, acceptance of dissections of the body for studies, and the development of the press publishing books, which allowed greater access to knowledge from their research.