The Late Medieval England Disease Explored

Britain started from the modern industrial revolution led the world modernizationprocess for two centuries, which is a very influential countries in all over the world.Like other European countries, Britain’s many sign of modern civilization is come frommedieval times. From Norman conquest to the Tudor dynasty, which is to say Englishmost of the modern civilization inheritance are originated from this period. In theinheritance disease plays a very important role. Britain is different from other continentscountry, so disease for Britain’s influence is more far-reaching. After all, Britain is theisland, when disaster strikes it,it can’t almost avoid it.From the middle of the11th century Britain began to follow the pace of Europeanagriculture, entered the era of "big reclamation", appeared an unprecedented increase incultivated land area. In12thcentury Europe at the beginning of the new farming systemand cultivation technology was introduced into the UK, under the new system and newtechnology promotion, large agricultural development ushered in British history. Withincreasing of food production, Britain’s population grew and increasing of labor force,in turn, continue to promote agricultural development more quickly, thus forming avirtuous cycle of agricultural development. Under the background of this goodcondition, British society also got rapid progress, the most significant feature is thebeginning of the development of commodity economy and urbanization process.In this kind of good social background, driven by the expansion of the populationin the Britain shows large scale, it also has caused the society problems which is havenever exist: living environment have become narrow, the city’s health is poor, theemergence of the epidemic, and so on. Appeared in early Britain, no major epidemics,diseases and local infection exists in society, just as the period of "great reclamation"the commodity economy developed and population mobility also increases, whichmakes the local infectious diseases influence scope has been expanded, they becameepidemic of Confucianism gradually.(which needs us to define the late medieval timementioned)Tuberculosis and leprosy are epidemic between the middle of11thcentury and the middle of the14thcentury (specific time). In agricultural development period,commodity economy and the urbanization has been developed, so the urbanenvironment, living space narrow problems would emerged, this is the spread ofmycobacterium tuberculosis has created a favorable environment, makes the period ofTB incidence than ever to increase greatly. At the time of the society the king touchedthe neck lymphatic tuberculosis patients is the custom of the treatment of the disease,visible TB’s height has the very high popularity in the middle ages. Damage as seriousleprosy in this period, but relative to the tuberculosis (TB) happens in the city, leprosy,happens in the countryside, because of the tremendous increase of rural population thatmakes people affected by leprosy mycobacteria infection probability also increases.Because of its unique symptoms of leprosy patients and be rejected by the society, butat the same time, treat leprosy patient care has been the recognition of the society as ahas the tutelage, and kindness at that time. Britain broke out an unprecedented socialcrisis in1348, the black death began to invade Britain in this year, from1348to1350nearly half of the population were killed. About the black death’s impact on Britishsociety, foreign works are very abundant, and the domestic research is quite abundant,we will not refer. All in all, he black death blow to British society is huge, in the shortterm, the loss of a large population, the social is on the verge of collapse; but alsobecause of this, in this devastated society, new changes also in brewing.After The Black Death, Britain shrouded in mainly plague the aftermath of the darkperiod of the high incidence of other chronic diseases. Surviving in the Great Plague ofpeople I thought could escape punishment from God, results from which they found thatthey fell in the abyss of a new. From1350the end of15thBritain’s mortality rate hasbeen high, the population has not been back to the front of the great plague, but alsobecause of the influence of the black death, a large number of people began pouring intocities, which in turn contributed to the larger urbanization development.