Imagine waking in Tudor England with a fever and no paracetamol, no antibiotics, and no doctor to call.
In this first part of A Beginner’s Guide to Tudor Medicine, we step inside the Tudor worldview, a world where illness was not an enemy to be fought, but a sign of imbalance within the body.
You’ll discover:
– The theory of the Four Humours
– How personality, seasons, and health were linked
– Why bloodletting made sense
– How astrology shaped medical treatment
– What it really meant to “heal” in the sixteenth century
Tudor medicine was not random superstition. It was a coherent system, built on centuries of observation and experience.
In Part 2, we’ll explore the strangest Tudor cures, and the ones that actually worked.
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