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How to survive a medieval pandemic!

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Tony McMahon

Tony McMahon looks at how to survive a medieval pandemic by examining the comments and actions of people who went through the Black Death

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Category: Templar History Tags: black death, Bubonic Plague, Colorado, Coronavirus, Covid, cure, Decameron, disinfectant, flagellant, flagellation, florence, Galen, Giovanni Boccaccio, god, Hippocrates, humors, humours, Infectious disease, lockdown, lungs, medicine, Medieval, middle ages, onions, pandemic, quack, quarantine, sick

Horrific medieval medical treatments!

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Tony McMahon

Medieval medicine appears very strange to people today. Disease was associated with sin and wrongdoing as Tony McMahon discovers

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Category: Templar History Tags: Anglo-Saxon, black death, Bubonic Plague, channel 4, Disease, illness, medicine, Medieval, Middle Age, Roman Empire, Tony Robinson