After the Plague

Plague Medicine: Opium, Gold, Poison Clouds

Documentary Dec 21, 2023 26 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E6: The medicines and methods deployed to fight the Black Death, ineffective as most ultimately were, reveal a broader turn toward scientific thinking in medieval Europe. Learn about the “plague treatises” that circulated at the time, as well as the role of religion, astrology, environment, and diet in medieval medicine.

Documentary Dec 21, 2023 26 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2023
Run Time: 26 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.