Summary of Toni Mount's Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The miasma theory, which was the prevailing theory in medieval Europe, stated that diseases arose from bad smells. Medieval physicians and scholars believed that diseases were caused by foul airs, and therefore, they would often force local residents to clear away their waste.
#2 The disease Rhazes wrote about in the tenth century was similar to chicken pox. He thought that people’s basic constitutions determined whether they suffered from smallpox or measles.
#3 The first known disease that afflicted humans was the plague, which was spread by fleas. It was first diagnosed in 1414 in Paris, and was believed to be caused by dying flowers.
#4 The Black Death, also known as the Plague of Justinian, was a disease that swept through Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries AD. It was brought to England by the Romans, and it was also known as the Plague of Cadwalader’s Time in Ireland.

Sujets

• medieval
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669349846
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Toni Mount's Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The miasma theory, which was the prevailing theory in medieval Europe, stated that diseases arose from bad smells. Medieval physicians and scholars believed that diseases were caused by foul airs, and therefore, they would often force local residents to clear away their waste.

#2

The disease Rhazes wrote about in the tenth century was similar to chicken pox. He thought that people’s basic constitutions determined whether they suffered from smallpox or measles.

#3

The first known disease that afflicted humans was the plague, which was spread by fleas. It was first diagnosed in 1414 in Paris, and was believed to be caused by dying flowers.

#4

The Black Death, also known as the Plague of Justinian, was a disease that swept through Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries AD. It was brought to England by the Romans, and it was also known as the Plague of Cadwalader’s Time in Ireland.

#5

The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was caused by the bites of infected rat fleas. It was not contagious from person to person, except in its pneumonic form, which affected the lungs and could be passed on in airborne droplets.

#6

The Black Death was the result of a particularly virulent strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was transmitted from rat to human. It was not as contagious as modern strains, so scientists have focused on the vectors of the disease: the means by which it is transferred from one victim to the next.

#7

The Black Death arrived in Sicily in October 1347, carried by the Genoese galleys that had spent months at sea from the Crimea. The Italian chronicler Michael of Piazza stated that the plague took a firm grip on the city within a few days, and that the authorities had set up quarantine measures.

#8

Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed between twenty and thirty million people out of a population of sixty million.

#9

The Black Death was a pandemic that killed millions throughout Europe. It was brought on by the flies that were attracted to the smell of decomposing bodies. It was here to stay until the late seventeenth century.

#10

The plague was spread through the pores of the skin, via respiration, and through the gaze of an infected person. It was believed that the disease originated in a universal pollution of the air, brought about by a deadly planetary conjunction of Mars, Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius.

#11

Leprosy, or Hanson’s disease, was a bacterial infection that was spread through skin-to-skin contact. It was considered a sin to have sex with a person who had leprosy, and people believed that lecherous men and women were more likely to be afflicted with the disease as a divine punishment.

#12

Leprosy was a disease that was extremely contagious, but was also one of the least contagious of bacterial infections. It was believed that it was extremely contagious, and that is why people were so afraid of it.

#13

Another disease that may have been similar to the plague was the sweating sickness, which killed many people in the sixteenth century. It began with a headache, giddiness, and lethargy, and soon progressed to drenching sweats and a rapid pulse. If a patient survived for twenty-four hours, he was usually fine.

#14

The discovery of antibiotics allowed minor injuries to be treated, but not minor infections. Septicaemia/sepsis was common, and could be fatal if not treated quickly.

#15

The Church opposed the use of medicine for the most part, as it did not believe in the power of the human body to heal itself. It also did not believe in the power of doctors to cure people.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Medieval medicine was largely focused on caring for the sick, rather than curing them. The Church believed that illnesses were punishments from God, and that those who were ill were sinners.

#2

The Fourth Lateran Council, convened by Pope Innocent III in 1215, made matters even more complex when it decided that clerics should be forbidden to spill blood.