what did medieval doctors use to cure the plague? this is urgent!!!?

Answer 1

The Great Fire of London was pretty much what stopped the plague. Of course this was after it had already killed, an estimated, 1/3 of Europeans.

Answer 2

My guess is "holy water".

At the height of the plague, it was common practice to seal the sick and their families inside their homes and simply let the victim(s) die naturally. False doctors are often called "quacks". This might have originated by many medieval doctors wearing cone shaped breathing masks stuffed with aromatic herbs. It made them appear rather birdlike. In these times it was thought that rancid air was the cause of infection. Malaria is a latin term literally meaning "bad air".

The plague was essentially incurable at the time because antiobiotics had not been discovered and nobody even suspected there were living things too small for people to see. Plague is a bacteria spread by rat fleas, and nobody at the time knew this either, although rats were thought to spread disease, but it was unknown how they infected people. In fact, killing rats might have even helped the plague to spread. Deprived of their rats, the fleas began biting people instead.

Answer 3

Basically nothing they did had much use since they had no idea at all about microscopic bacteria. Most of their attempts only made the problem worse.
Only one thing had any positive effect: Quarantine. Where it was applied religiously the survival rate was quite high. Dubrovnick in Croatia followed that course will very good results. Of course it only takes one litte mistake, one little kindness, and you are so screwed.
Other attempts at cures, such as burning Jews in wholesale lots, certainly made Christians feel better, but did nothing to extend their survival. Running away from the infected cities sometimes worked, but usually it simply spread the plague even further.

Answer 4

Urgent? You have the plague, do you? :-)

Either people got well or they didn't. That's it. As others have answered, a lot of the medical practices of the day just made things worse. Herbal remedies might have helped with some of the symptoms, but in the end it came down to the patient's immune system.

Answer 5

They shut infected people in their houses to stop it spreading. If you survived, lowish probability, you were probably going to be ok for the next time the infection struck.

They didn't really cure it in our understanding of the word cure

Answer 6

They didn't cure them. There was no cure, but they often
used leaches to suck the blood from the patient. It did no
good and probably made them worse.

Answer 7

They took blood out of the patients, which ironically made it worse since you need all the blood you can get when you are sick.

Answer 8

Rose hips, which is a mild antibiotic, and bathing.