Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in Britain: Health and the People (c1000–Present).
A widespread but incorrect medieval belief that the presence of white pus in a wound was a positive sign that the body was healing.
Laudable pus appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Thematic Studies, especially Britain: Health and the People (c1000–Present) and Medical Progress.
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