HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Syphilis, Mixed Group, Folk Healer
Document Summary
Scotland developed fairly successful ways of dealing with 2 non-epidemic diseases leprosy and syphilis. During james iv"s peaceful reign the study of medicine in scotland was favoured and the growth of a separate secular profession was encouraged. These new towns were dangerous since they began to harbour rats and fleas which spread the plague. Other health problems resulted from the increasingly insanitary conditions. War or famine produced local or national social crisis. External wars against the english and norwegians caused victorious army to pillage, loot and sack the vanquished leader"s land. Rise of small towns and better transport resulted in spread of epidemic disease. The black death enetered britain in august 1348 at weymouth in dorset. London and one year later, it entered scotland. First there was a delay at the border. Scots considered it to have a special affliction by god on the english army then at the border.
