What medicine was used during the Elizabethan Era?

Answer 1

Hi!
Good one to answer. A Wide variety of things were used. Most of them were based on the believe that illnes was caused by an impurity of the blood, so blood letting was considered the normal option for all times of ails. This would either be done with a knife or leeches.
Around the Elizabethan Times, you still had the plague hanging around. Cures for this included strapping a shaved chicken to a boil (NOT KIDDING!), eating crushed emeralds (For the very rich) and lighting a bonfire outside you house (in the believe that the bad smell are what caused the plague)
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Answer 2

Elizabethan Era Medicine

Answer 3

Lots of blood letting.Herbal remedy's.Mercury was a popular one but deadly.
As the plague was a common problem people would walk about with nose gays.These were simply a cloth or more elaborate items held to the mouth nose or covering the face.They would be stuffed full of herbs, flowers & other strange things belived to ward of the infection.They belived that the infection was in the air[Miasima] not passed from person to person.
The nursery ryme Ring a ring a roses I belive was to do with the plague.
A ring a ring of roses a pocket full of poseys atishoo atishho we all fall down.
Plague was spread by fleas then from person to person buy coughing snezzing etc.The nose gays didnt work very well.

Answer 4

The main medicines were herbal remedies used by folkwives, but the physicians of the time would bleed the patient either using leeches or by slicing a vein and catching the blood in cups. Illness was thought to be caused by "ill humors" which circulated in the blood.

Answer 5

I read a book and cannot remember the name but one of the drinks they gave for the plague included vinegar and gunpowder.

Here are some links to some of their other medicines:

Answer 6

Mercury, Laudnum, opium, alcohol,