Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease.
One such illness is Huntington's Disease- a disease of the central nervous system, that usually begins to shows symptoms between ages 30-50.
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.
A Disease for the Ages was created on 2008-05-13.
It is not very likely. However, people who develop a debilitating illness in their middle ages have a chance of dying in their sixties. My father was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in his late forties, and he passed away when he was 68.
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.
exploding chicken disease is a rare disease in males ages 9-12
Yes
Depending on the ages and other circumstances, yes.
they used male urine
they carried fleas that carried the disease and when they bit they infected their victim
black plague
Bleeding out the illness, black powder and sweating it out.