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How do you fight a disease, when you don\u2019t know what causes it? In this episode, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Elma Brenner about medieval medical thinking and how it informed responses to the Black Death, from ideas about how bad air and misaligned planets could make you sick, to the rituals and remedies used to treat plague victims and the state of 14th-century hospital care.\nThe primary sources quoted in this series are mainly taken from:\nThe Black Death, translated and edited by Rosemary Horrox (1994)\nThe Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents, John Arberth (2005)\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices