I would argue preventative care was very much a thing in the Middle Ages. There was an idea that “virtue”/strength would prevent disease. Not unlike todays heal

I would argue preventative care was very much a thing in the Middle Ages. There was an idea that “virtue”/strength would prevent disease. Not unlike todays health obsessed people. “Virtue” literally means “manliness”. There’s a quote about how “a warriors strength in battle has come to mean a woman’s abstinence in bed” - but I don’t know the source.