The Measma Theory

One of the main lines of thinking leading to a major treatment of the middle ages in and beyond, which is the treatment of blood letting. Or actually not just blood let blood letting, various purging procedures that would try to purge people of excess fluids within body when it was thought their humours were out of balance. Now, next there was, there was the idea that illness spread via ad air. This also had been advanced by hippocrates. So again, an idea rooted in classical thought, in some of the n what were considered the best ideas concerning the natural world of the time. And as a result of the belief in miasma theory, a common preventative to infection under