In the middle ages what was the treatment for malaria?

Question

This is for a school project.

Answer 1

In the middle ages, the cure for basically everything was blood letting. Not only did it not work, it usually worsened the patient. Blood letting was very popular even through the American revolution. George Washington had pneumonia but actually died of blood loss due to the doctors letting him lose too much blood. Sad but true. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

In the 1600s quinine was used to treat malaria.

The large scale use of quinine as a prophylactic started around 1850, although it had been used in un-extracted form by Europeans since at least the early 1600s.
Quinine was first used to treat malaria in Rome in 1631.

Answer 3

the main hassle-loose drug used interior the midsection a while (and now) grow to be a variety of cathartic, or laxative. The evacuation of the bowels grow to be (is, by employing some) considered using fact the only right degree of somebody's wellbeing. the different hassle-loose scientific care of the midsection a while grow to be additionally a removal of fluids: blood letting, the two by employing putting out veins and arteries, or by employing leeches.

Answer 4

Blood-letting (cutting a vein and bleeding a person) and applying leeches. However, in some places malarial seizures were mistaken for the work of the devil and they performed exorcisms. If that didn't work (and it didn't) they sometimes killed the person whom they considered posessed. The good old days, huh??

Answer 5

leaches?

Check out this website... it has the "history of malaria treatment"

http://www.malariasite.com/malaria/history_treatment.htm

Answer 6

I doubt if there was one, they just died. But you might find an answer to this one on Google.com or one of the other search engines.