Medicine In Tudor TimesAbout Medicine

In Tudor times, medicine had not advanced since medieval England. It is thought that only 10% of all Tudors lived beyond their 40th birthday because of

infections, germs, poor standards of knowledge and science. In the countryside, villagers would of relied

on herbal remedies for illnesses, such as natural ingredients like lavender. Doctors had to train in astrology as well as medicine as people used to believe that illnesses were caused more by the

influence of stars than germs and poor hygiene. In those days, people did not understand about germs and hygiene. Most people had no access to doctors as they were expensive. Mainly the rich would go

and see doctors. There were no anaesthetics, antibiotics or painkillers as they were not yet

discovered. If anyone needed surgery then they would of probably died due to infection and bacteria.

Here are some Illnesses Known

In Tudor Times

DeafnessSmall pox Head-lice

Gout Jaundice Plagues

Sweating Sickness Scurvy

Scrofula

Scurvy

Smallpox

Head-lice

Deafness

Sweating Sickness

Gout

Jaundice

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A Few Cures That Tudors Thought That Worked In Tudor times

Gout – Apply to the effected foot a mixture made out of worms, pigs marrow , herbs boiled together with a red-

haired dog.Deafness – Mix a gall of a hare with grease from a fox.

Warm the concoction and place it into the ear.Smallpox – Hang red curtains around the victims bed and

as the red light produced by the curtains will cure the patient.

Head-lice – Pouring tobacco juice onto your/their scalpJaundice – To swallow nine lice mixed with ale (alcohol) and

do it continuously for 7 days

Also, One of the common treatments was bleeding. Sometimes a

doctor would open a vein by cutting it and letting out the “bad blood”.

Sometimes leeches would be put on the skin.

Leeches

Infection

Lavender

Scrofula is a disease with glandular swellings, probably a form of tuberculosis.

Scrofula