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People did not differentiate between disease, infection and illness in the middle ages. They did not know about bacteria and virus. All they new abut was poisons, injury, and curses, any of which could be blamed.
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The majority of people during the Middle Ages were?
90% of the population were serfs. They grew the crops, fought the nobility's wars, died by the thousands in war, disease, and accidents.
How do the middle class people live their lives?
how do middle class people live
What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What was predicted during the early Middle Ages?
That airplanes, submarines, and automobile engines would be invented.
What were the rumors people living during the middle ages believed had caused the plague to hit Europe?
They believed that it was from God, who was angry with them for sinning, Witches and Jews poisoning the water supply or the planets and stars beling aligned. But it was actually the fleas that the rats carried.
How did people believe diseases spread in the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, the most common idea about spread of disease was that the cause was bad air, which they called maisma. Believe it or not, one result of this belief was that medieval people bathed a lot.
What did Roman doctors believe caused illness?
the romans all thought that it was bad swamp air that caused disease, they thought it was natural causes that caused disease whereas, the people in the middle ages thought that it was spirits that caused disease.
What disease caused by a microscopic organism kills more people than any other disease?
what disease caused by microscopic organism kills more people thanany otherdisease?
What did people believe to be the cause of the disease which was the Black Death?
People believed that the cause of the disease was revengre from God.
How do people get Maple Syurp Urine Disease?
It is a genetic disease caused by a mutation in a chromosome. You do not catch it.
What in the middle ages did people believe was in the middle of heaven and hell?
Earth ....
What caused the brain damage to the people in the film Awakenings?
My psychology teacher said it was encephalitis (disease to the brain), and the lack of certain neurotransmitters (dopamine I believe is one)
Which disease is thought to have caused the most harm to the most people?
Milaria
Why did people believe in the witchcraft?
Superstition, resulting from spread of disease.
The disease that killed many people was smallpox and?
mousito bites. it what caused by smallpox
Why did thousands of people come to the United states from Ireland in the 1800s?
A disease in the potato crop caused enormous famine and disease.
What did philosophers believe caused the bubonic plague?
what caused the black death was rats from china cause when people from china would come over to Europe to deliver things they have made for the europeans and the rats came on the ship with these fleas on them and the fleas carried the bubonic plague witch got into the rats so when the people from china came over with this disease all the rats came out of the ship and the Chinese people died on the ship with the disease it caused the bubonic plague to happen witch it did so that's what happened.
