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The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice (Ashgate, 2007); 258pp; essays by scholars; Getz, Faye. Medicine in the English Middle Ages. (Princeton University Press, 1998). ISBN 0-691-08522-6; Hartnell, Jack (2019). Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. Wellcome Collection. ISBN 978-1781256800.
From the belief that the disease could be cured by a royal touch. Lockjaw: Trismus [14] The term is sometimes used as a synonym for tetanus, which usually first manifests as trismus. Monkeypox: Mpox [15] Muerto Canyon disease: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome [16] Named for the area where it was initially identified. "Four Corners disease" is ...
Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485.
Disability is poorly documented in the Middle Ages, though disabled people constituted a large part of Medieval society as part of the peasantry, clergy, and nobility.Very little was written or recorded about a general disabled community at the time, but their existence has been preserved through religious texts and some medical journals.
The historiography and historiophoty of medieval film originated in the late 20th century. Historiophoty, the study of history through film, was coined by noted historiographer Hayden White in Historiography and Historiophoty (1988) in which he theorized that one of the main sources of friction between History and Film is the problem of translating from a written discourse (hence the -graphy ...
The dancing plague is an epidemic that occurred multiple times between the 14th and 17th century in different European regions. [2] Key sources from 1518 used by Hecker in The Dancing Mania identify the diagnosis of 'hot blood' given to the afflicted, as well as the common belief at the time that the plague was caused by demonic possession.
Despite some vague understanding of how diseases could spread, the existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown in medieval times, and the outbreak of disease could not be scientifically explained. Any sudden deterioration of health was often blamed on poisoning. Europe was hit by several waves of Black Death throughout the late Middle Ages ...
The final stage of this diseases causes the victim to give up their heart and memory, and ultimately their life. The disease lasts for an unknown time, those affected are slowly "given" the symptoms via blessings of a person with a mounted cruxis crystal. A major example is Collette, one of the eight protagonists of the game. Atma virus