[Sca-cooks] common diseases( was mustards)

[Micheal]

 I am sorry but I have to belief they simply did not know of all the health 
problems that are associated with unclean practices. They were still in the 
what's that and can we eat it stage of development.  When the health 
sciences we know were influenced by Mother Church more then  solid 
scientific fact. At least for most of Europe anyways.
 More often then not plagues, and disease were attributed to the wrath of 
god or works of the devil, then the ignorance of man.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise" <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] mustards


>> > In England, when? I was thinking that water would have
>> > to be boiled, otherwise you would be taking a chance
>> > on using water which was contaminated with microbes.
>>
>> 'microbes' ... yeah ... and _everything_ else.
>>
>> Stefan, how could they have generally known about health
>> hazards of water in the Renaissance?  In Holland, about
>> 1595 the microscope was invented by Zacharias Jansenn
>> (his business was grinding lenses for eyeglasses).  Later,
>> Anton van Leeuwenhoek began to make microscopes as a hobby.
>
> Well, bad water tends to lead with acute directness to dysentery, which
> tends to give people a clue. The
> association of standing water or bad smelling water in particular with
> health risks were known.
>
> Just because we don't know _why_ something is bad for people doesn't
> necessarily mean we can't see when it causes problems.
>
>> I recall reading a comment (IIRC, NY Times) that modern
>> archeological examination of period cesspools (coprolites)
>> in London showed that the residents played host to every
>> parasite known to man.
>
> Well, yes. But the point is that you want to keep a nice balance of
> those sorts of things. That's why there are so many herbs known in
> period for de-worming people. :)
>
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