What were doctors like in the Tudor times?

What were doctors like in the Tudor times?

Tudor doctors were very expensive and they could do little about illness partly because they did not know what caused disease. They had little idea of how the human body worked. Doctors thought the body was made up of four fluids or ‘humors’. They were blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, and melancholy or black bile.

What did Tudor doctors do?

Tudor doctors often examined a patient’s urine – checking its smell, colour and even taste! Astrology also played a key role in diagnosing a patient’s illness.

What jobs did the Tudors have?

Tudor Jobs

• Cordwainer. A cordwainer made shoes out of leather.
• Weaver. A weaver made cloth by weaving yarn together on a loom.
• Tailor. A tailor made clothes for people who could afford to buy them rather than make their own.
• Smith. A smith was someone who made things out of metal.
• Mason.
• Barber.
• Servants.
• Merchants.

What happens if you become ill in Tudor times?

The Tudors saw disease as a punishment from God. They understood that some, like the plague, could be spread by human contact, but had few effective treatments. This is because they believed the human body produced four bodily fluids known as ‘the humors’: blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm.

Why did the Tudors get so terribly ill?

The Tudors were fascinated by the idea that your body had four ‘humors,’ and that if your humors were out of balance, it would cause you to become ill. Your humors were blood, phlegm, and two different types of bile.

What did poor Tudors eat and drink?

Poor people in the Tudor period would eat vegetables, bread and whatever meat they could find, such as: rabbits, blackbirds, pheasants, partridges, hens, duck and pigeon. They also used to eat fish caught from rivers and lakes.

How did the Tudors cure a headache?

As an example, a Tudor ‘cure’ for a headache was to drink a medicine made up of a mixture of lavender, sage, majoram, roses and rue or to press a hangman’s rope to your head. Rheumatism was treated by the patient being made to wear the skin of a donkey.