Booklet 1 Medicine

Question 1

What were 5 reasons of disease and illness in Medieval times?

Answer 1

• Poverty
• Famine
• Warfare
• Accidental death
• Lack of hygiene

Question 2

How did poverty cause illness?

Answer 2

75 % could not feed themselves not enough money to buy food, water etc

Question 3

How did Famine cause death?

Answer 3

1315-1317

-10% of the population died from starvation

Question 4

What did Medieval people THINK made them ill?

Answer 4

• God
• Bad smells
• Supernatural (witches)
• Everyday life (death was inevitable , low life expectancy)
• Four humours

Question 5

3 Facts About Black Death 1348?

Answer 5

• Began in Asia
• First arrived in in Dorset
• Killed 50% to 66% of British Population

Question 6

What did Medieval people think started off the Black death?

Answer 6

• Bad smells, invisible fumes
• Four humours being out of balance
• Position of planets
• God
• Jews poisoning the wells and springs

Question 7

How many people died of the Plague in 1665?

Answer 7

25% of people died

Question 8

What was the average life expectancy for labourers in Bethnal Green in London in 1842?

Answer 8

-15

Question 9

What made disease spread quickly in industrial towns?

Answer 9

• contaminated food and water (typhoid, cholera)
• poor sanitation (typhoid)
• cramped spaces

Question 10

Where did Spanish flu come around?

Answer 10

-At the end of the war, a strain of flu that originated from China, spread around the world

Question 11

What did people think Spanish Flu came from?

Answer 11

• German biological warfare

- effect of Trench warfare and use of mustard gas

Question 12

Why did Spanish flu spread quickly?

Answer 12

–a war and weakened population aided by mass troop movements at the end of the war

Question 13

How many people did Spanish flu kill?

Answer 13

• A few months in 280,000 people died n the UK

- 7 million people died in Spain, (Spanish flu)

Question 14

2014 Aids statisitcs?

Answer 14

-In2014, it was ESTIMATED 40 million people died of AIDS and 40 million people were living with the disease

Question 15

What were attitudes towards AIDS that we had before?

Answer 15

• If we repent our sins would be cured
• God is punishing us
• AIDS can be caught from touching people
• Isolate victims stop spread

Question 16

What was different with AIDS compared to other epidemics?

Answer 16

• you can easily stop the spread of AIDS

- know how it’s spread

Question 17

What did people in Early modern times think disease spread?

Answer 17

• miasma (bad smells)

- human contact

Question 18

Who invented the theory of the four humours and what was it?

Answer 18

• Hippocrates

- blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile, out of balance caused illness

Question 19

How did Medieval people try PREVENT catching the Black Death?

Answer 19

• the church was influential at the time, had to live a pure and Christian life
• pray
• whipped themselves to purify themselves in God’s eyes
• Bloodletting to let evil spirits out
• drink urine once a day

Question 20

What were soothsayers?

Answer 20

• wise women who were knowledgeable of sickness and disease and which herbs helped
• claimed they could see in the future
• collected plants, herbs, special stones and carried it around with them
• made special charms to protect against evil

Question 21

What were aclhemists?

Answer 21

scientists

Question 22

How did herbal remedies work?

Answer 22

-Used for their magical properties

Question 23

How did medieval people try treat disease?

Answer 23

• Herbal
• Leeches
• Purging
• Urine
• Astrology
• Zodiac
• Barber surgeon

Question 24

How was urine used?

Answer 24

Drs would carefully compare the colour of your urine to a chart

Question 25

How was astrology used to cure illness?

Answer 25

-They believed stars and planets caused disease. The position of stars and planets would also affect how to try and cure illness

Question 26

How was zodiac charts used to cure illness?

Answer 26

-Doctors would not bleed patients in the area their zodiac signs controlled

Question 27

What were treatments in Early Modern Period?

Answer 27

• Many Same as medieval times
• Doctrine of signatures (idea of using a plant that looked like that part of the body to cure that part)
• lifestyles were again considered in treatment fresh air and diet became important again

Question 28

What are ways of treating cancer?

Answer 28

• radiation therapy
• chemotherapy
• mastectomy (removal of a woman’s breast)

Question 29

How were diseases in Early modern times like Cholera, Plague spread?

Answer 29

• dirty water
• poor sanitation
• cramped spaces

Question 30

What did King Edward 111 do to prevent the Black Death?

Answer 30

-King Edward 111 ordered the streets of London to be cleaned of filth thinking it was bad smells

Question 31

What did people in the MODERN era think disease spread?

Answer 31

• God
• Biological warfare
• Monkey
• Germans

Question 32

How did disease ACTUALLY spread in Modern times?

Answer 32

• Needles
• Unprotected sex
• Droplets from sneezing and coughing

Question 33

What did Prince Charles give a speech on?

Answer 33

Homeopathy

Question 34

What was the drug given to woman of morning sickness?

Answer 34

-Thalidomide