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Black Plague In Medieval Medicine

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Finally, the black plague affected medicine and health in a good way. The plague was the beginning of the movement from medieval practices to modern medicine techniques. This pandemic was an eye opener to many. According to Digital Commons website, “The Black Death represents an event that helped shape medieval medicine's course of development, and as such, helped shape the development of future medical practices” (Vanneste). The problem with medieval medicine techniques was that they focused on ways to prevent disease, and there were not many medical techniques for actually treating an illness. Only having the techniques for preventing illness did not go good in the case of the black plague. With millions of people dying people started looking

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