1MST: medieval medicine

Question 1

causes of illness:

Answer 1

• God as punishment- prayer, flagellatiom, pilgrimage and repentance as cures
• witches and evil spirits (like exorcisms)
• astrology
• miasma

Question 2

cures/treatment

Answer 2

• Doctrine Of Signatures
• Zodiac Charts
• Urine Charts
• Herbal Cures
• Blood letting

Question 3

medieval doctor is called?
give credentials and treatments

Answer 3

barber surgeon
no medical training- learnt through word of mouth and personal experience
bloodletting and amputations were common
also cut hair

Question 4

different medical care

Answer 4

• barber surgeon
• apothecaries
• wise women
• physicians- trained in Galen and Hippocractic methods- rare & expensive
• hospitals set up by the church- did not always treat those with spreadable disease

Question 5

doctors were trained in..?

Answer 5

universities set up by the Church- usually in Italy eg Padua University or Bologna
Lots of Galen was taught

Question 6

dissection was allowed..?

Answer 6

only for executed criminals- slowed progress as Galen’s ideas could not be disproven

Question 7

Church influence on health: yay or nay?

theme: religion

Answer 7

yay:
* christian duty led to helping the sick
* monasteries were hygienic, had clean water, good sewage facilities and access to herbs
* hospitals were set up but were led by priests not doctors
* monks recorded knowledge from the Crusades
nay:
* stopped dissection
* stopped discussion of Galen’s works- arrested Roger Bacon in 1200s bc he encouraged personal investigation
* reduced Islamic influence in medicine bc of religious differences
* emphasised palliative care rather than coming up with new cures
* enabled lassez faire government style through intervention?- set up 700 in england
* hospitals turned away the very sick
OVERALL: cared for, not cured, the sick