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Plague Doctors
For more history, collowing @kingdomoftributes on Instagram! What was a plague doctor? The Medico della Peste, also known as The Beak Doctor, they were a medieval physician meant to treat bubonic plague victims. They treated everyone due to pay from the city, but some charged more for "special" treatments or falsified cures. Majority were amateurs and only counted for the number of casualties instead of curing, and little were genuinely experienced in medicine. At the time, claiming to be a healer wasn't difficult and only few knew with accuracy what they did, and so many only worsened it. Generally, doctors weren't associated with knowing what they were truly doing until the 19th century. People in France and the Netherlands called them "empirics" due to their lack of medical training, as there was an example of s fruit vendor being a doctor. Yet, because of the illness, they were seen as valuable and revered and were given special privileges at time. For ex: there was an incident where Barcelona sent two of these doctors to Tortosa in 1650 and they were captured and demanded for ransom... Matteo du Angelo was a doctor in 1348 that was hired for 50 florin a year in Orveito... doctors were hired by Pope Clement VI to handle the sick in Avignon... Florence and Perugia used them to do autopsies to find a cure and a cause of death. These doctors witnessed dozens of wills during epidemics and gave advice on what to do before death (it depended per patient and after the medieval era the nature between doc and patience developed a complex ethical code) and other important document, and since the job was more demographic, some doctors ran off with wills and documents. And since desperate times called for desperate measures, The closer to dying the worse the testament. The most doctors knew was just the person they were treating, and the less they knew medically the more comfy they were with creativity. Regardless of economic status, doctors served to everyone, but some did "invent" cures or medicines that had a fee for the wealthy.
Skelly SnooPublished 4 years ago in LongevityHow COVID-19 Compares to the Spanish Flu
It’s eerie to think about how just over 100 years ago, the world was in the midst of a different global pandemic. The Spanish flu took the lives of 20 to 50 million people, making it one of the worst viral outbreaks in human history. To put it into perspective, the Spanish flu killed around five percent of the planet’s entire population and wiped out more people than WWI. As we’re now faced with our very own contagion in 2020, there’s a lot we can learn by looking at the past.
Shandi PacePublished 4 years ago in LongevityCome Smile With Me—Episode 2
I am a big six now and progressing very well, considering the doctors’ prognosis. I am still having physiotherapy, mainly on my legs that don’t want to work too well. I wear a sort of brace during the day, but Mum can take it off when I am in bed, so that’s good. My friends don’t seem to notice that I am wearing anything different, which really helps me get through the days, and at night I feel normal. I have noticed that one of my legs is thinner than the other, but this will get better I am sure. Mum and Dad don’t talk about it much. I don’t want to be special, just normal. Perhaps I am normal already?
Peter ThwaitesPublished 7 years ago in LongevityThe Way Things Used To Be
One cannot help wonder by looking at the events that are occurring around the world today that maybe we would all wish things were back the way they used to be. Long before the Internet and smart phones we managed quite nicely with rotary telephones and remoteless TVs. We actually had to get up to change the TV channel. There were only three channels so there wasn't much debate on what channel to turn to. Not like it is today. Many of us can even remember the days before families got their first television set. Back then the radio was the family entertainment. Imagination is a wonderful experience. But, as we look around today there is too much stress, worry, and even with all those technological marvels of modern living today we really aren't connected like people were those many years ago.
Dr. WilliamsPublished 7 years ago in LongevityHistory of Morihei Ueshiba's Aikido
Aikido was founded by master Morihei Ueshiba who lived to be 86 years old. Born outside Osaka, Japan in 1883, Ueshiba travelled to Tokyo in his late teens to seek martial arts training. Although he investigated many systems he concentrated on Yagyu Shinkage Ryu (kenjutsu), the Hozoin Spear Style (sojutso) and Tenji Shinyo Ryu (jujutsu). Each practice emphasizes a spiritually and physically healthy body.
Alicia SpringerPublished 7 years ago in Longevity