Miserable medicine
The medical practices that did more harm than good
Nowadays, when you’re feeling unwell, you can v isit a clean hospital and receive tried-and tested-treatments from a doc tor with years of medical training. We of ten take this moder n medicine for granted, but our ancestors throughout histor y were not qu ite so luck y when it came to health care. In medieval England for example, poor hygiene and filthy living cond itions meant that disease was ver y com mon.