MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES...p133 Man tired to protect health during the Middle Ages....

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MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES...p133

Man tired to protect health during the Middle Ages. Certain important health methods were used during this period. Epidemics of diphtheria, typhoid, fever , leprosy ( проказа ) , influenza , bubonic plague and other diseases took millions of lives.
Leprosy was spread for hundreds of years. This disease wAS controlled not by medical means. The patients lived in special colonies away from other people .
This was a very important advance in public health during this period.
Durind the Middle Ages plague killed many millions of people in Europe.
In 1384 the ''Black Death'' struck ( поразила ) Britain; nobody knew how to fight with the disease. The doctors advised people to run away from the affected ( пораженные ) areas . Everybody agreed that plague was god's punishment ( божья кора ) for the sins ( грех ) of men.

1) What diseases took millions of lives in the middle ages?
2) How was leprosy controlled in the middle ages?
3) What disease struck Britain in 1348?
4) How was plague called? 5) Was plague god's punishment for the sins of man?

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1) What diseases took millions of lives in the middle ages? 
Epidemics of diphtheria, typhoid, fever , leprosy ( проказа ) , influenza , bubonic plague and other diseases took millions of lives.
2) How was leprosy controlled in the middle ages? 
Leprosy was spread for hundreds of years. This disease was controlled not by medical means. The patients lived in special colonies away from other people . This was a very important advance in public health during this period.
3) What disease struck Britain in 1348? 
In 1384 the ''Black Death'' struck ( поразила ) Britain.
4) How was plague called?
It was called ''Black Death'' .
5) Was plague god's punishment for the sins of man?
Everybody agreed that plague was god's punishment ( божья кора ) for the sins ( грех ) of men. But it wasn't.