Healers, Helpers, and Hucksters: Who Treated the Plague in Medieval Europe?
For centuries, Europe faced the plague with a medical system based on ancient theories that simply didn’t match the reality of the disease.
For centuries, Europe faced the plague with a medical system based on ancient theories that simply didn’t match the reality of the disease.
Throughout the long centuries of the Second Pandemic, physicians fought valiantly but were hampered by their own understanding of disease.