In the long history of this world, there has often been little to no concern of hygiene. Since the beginning of a dawn, the average lifespan has been drastically short due to this lack of hygiene. Diseases, illnesses, germs, and the such were often spread to from citizens to citizens with help of parasites and insects as well. Some well known common diseases are typhoid, malaria, leprosy, and smallpox. Most well-known examples of plagues so far are the Plague of Athens in Greece, the Antonine Plague in Rome, the Plague of Justinian in what was known as the Byzantine Empire. Plagues, outbreaks, or epidemics would spread through the trade routes and highly populated, crowded cities. There would often be feces thrown wherever, whenever by the citizens who inhabit that city due to lack of common sense and locations to put their waste. Citizens would not wash for days, weeks, and even some wouldn’t wash for months. However, if one were to come down with anything due to their carelessness, there was a high chance they could be visited by a doctor if they lived in populated areas. The doctor would diagnose you off how much of a body substance (blood, black bile, urine, or phlegm i.e., mucus) you would be producing or missing. Some of these treatments based off the diagnosis would often help and treat the patient. The doctors would make and give medicine, give advice, or remove an excess of fluid based off the season if none worked such as removal of blood during, removal of urine during, removal of black bile, and removal of mucus during all in the hopes of ridding the body of disease, they would even resort to the taboo of using witchcraft to save those who were infected. While the doctors had their methods, the church soon developed larger areas to help treat patients or hospitals. The disease started with a lack of hygiene and other causes, medicine was used to treat those diseases which would increase hygiene for others.
A famous individual
Written by Omar Donato
Clovis I was born Tournai, Belgium 466. He was the son of Childeric, a Frankish King and Basina, a Thuringian Queen. Since Clovis I was the son of a Frankish King, he would eventually inherit his father’s position, power, and wealth in 481. Clovis I went onto become a Frankish king starting in the Northeast of France, expanded south and westwards until he becomes Gaul’s most powerful king. He achieved this by influencing the Belgica Secunda Roman province, the Alemanni territories, Visigoth territories, and Burgundian territories. With all this land and power, he became Anastasius I of the Byzantine Empire’s most powerful and important western ally. Due to their alliance, Clovis I created the Law of Salian Franks (Pactus Legis Salicae) which was both Christian ideals, custom's laws, Roman laws that were written as a royal order to follow. Not too long after he came to power, he was to wed Princess Clotilda but “they” had a child before the marriage, one whose mother was unknown. The marriage then went onto produce 5 children, 6 total (5 males and 1 female), 4 of the 5 males would eventually become the “Do-nothing kings” after his father’s death and the land was divided into 4. Sometime after the marriage, Clotilda converted Clovis I from paganism to Christianity. He had to deal with Catholic Bishops in Gaul with political and diplomatic matters and protect those Bishops which would go on to advise him until his death. Clovis I died at 30, year 511 in Paris, France from natural causes.