Approaches to treatment and prevention: Flashcards
1
Q
Religious and supernatural treatments
- Purging
- Remides dieting
- praying
- chants and charms
- Pilgriamge
- Astrology
- blood letting
A
- mixture of herbs. causing vomit. Balance four humours
- herbs. sniff ginger mint. hot baths. cold eat chillies.
- pray for forgiveness. belief in god
- wear special stones chant. work because of old religion
- ill touch the sacred stone. church preached about it.
- use zodiac sign. aligns effect planets.
- use leeches. believed in four humours.
2
Q
Prevention continue
- Christian
- sweeping
- healthy sports=
- pollution
A
- prayer
- cleanliness
- eat well, exercise
- Miasma
3
Q
prevention change
- small amount
- less bath
- going to a next place
- cleaning up
A
- moderation condition at birth
- bathing due to syphilis. change clothes
- move away from areas of disease
- pick up rubbish. remove sewage
4
Q
who would look after the sick
A
- physicians
- apothecaries
- suergons(barber surgeons)
- women(old doctor)
5
Q
what do they do and who do they carter to
- physicians
- apothecaries
- suergons(barber surgeons)
- women(old doctor)
A
- rich people. huge amount of experience. four humour, pee
- Normal people. Not much experience. Mix medicine.
- pulls teeth, take limbs. some read, some went uni
- no education(aka brick pon brik) understanding to each. would check, you get to get bad spirts
6
Q
Where would they go for treatment
A
30% of hospital owned by the church
4. treated at home