9th september

Question 1

When was the medieval period?

Answer 1

10th - 15th Century

Question 2

What was a Barber Surgeon?

Answer 2

a dentist who carried out minor operations

Question 3

When was the Norman Conquest?

Answer 3

14th October 1066

Question 4

What is an epidemic?

Answer 4

a sudden widespread infectious disease

Question 5

What is effluent?

Answer 5

Liquid waste

Question 6

What is the Hippocratic Oath?

Answer 6

Oath taken by new doctors to help their patients.

Question 7

What is the Doctrine of Signatures?

Answer 7

States that herbs that look like parts of the body can be used by herbalists to treat those specific body parts

Question 8

What is a cesspit?

Answer 8

A hole in the ground full of sewage

Question 9

What is a cesspit?

Answer 9

A hole in the ground full of sewage

Question 10

What is the term used to describe the burning of skin around a wound?

Answer 10

Cauterisation

Question 11

What is the theory of the four humours

Answer 11

Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile and Black Bile, should be balanced with the body to prevent disease

Question 12

Give 2 reasons why living in a town in the middle ages was unhealthy?

Answer 12

poor, cramped housing, human and animal waste in streets, no access to clean drinking water

Question 13

Give 2 ways that towns tried to improve public health in the middle ages?

Answer 13

Wells for drinking water, fines for not cleaning street, tax for street cleaning, muck rakers, bath houses

Question 14

How did medieval people keep healthy?

Answer 14

tooth picks and mouth washes, combs and brushes, chewed fennel, bath house, drinking small ale

Question 15

If you were poor who would treat you if you became ill?

Answer 15

women

Question 16

Name 2 ways you could be treated by a Barber Surgeon?

Answer 16

extraction of teeth, removal of moles, etc., setting of broken bones

Question 17

How would an Apothecary treat you?

Answer 17

herbs, spices, herbal potions, use of four humours being balanced

Question 18

What did physicians use a urine chart for in the Middle Ages?

Answer 18

to diagnose illnesses

Question 19

Name 2 ways that women helped treat people in the middle ages?

Answer 19

Midwives, herbal potions, wise women

Question 20

What were Leeches used for?

Answer 20

bleeding to restore balance in the four humours

Question 21

Give 2 reasons why John Arderne was a significant English surgeon?

Answer 21

removing growth from anus, battlefield surgeon, pain killing ointment, The ‘Practice of Surgery’ book