BRITAIN HEALTH AND THE PEOPLE REVISION Flashcards
Middle Ages:
what was the main methods of treatment for illness
supernatural beliefs e.g zodiac charts
natural remedies e.g balms and ointments made of herbs
religious beliefs, e.g prayer
Middle Ages:
what was Hippocrates influence on medieval medicine
theory of the 4 humours
Middle Ages:
what were the 4 humours
blood
phlegm
black bile
yellow bile
Middle Ages:
how where the 4 humours believed to cause disease
people believed an imbalance in the 4 humours caused illness
Middle Ages:
what was an error of Galen’s studies
he only dissected animals and assumed that human biology would be the same.
Middle Ages:
how did the church have an influence on menicine
christianity taught that illness was a punishment from god for sin and believed in prayer to cure illness
the church controlled the universities where medicine was taught- teaching were based on Galen and hippocrates’s ideas
the church banned human dissection
Middle Ages:
describe Middle Ages hospitals
run my monasteries
main focus on care not treating
mainly reliant on prayer and herbal treatments
hospital wards had alters for prayer
Middle Ages:
name some issues to health in medieval towns
overcrowding
improper human waste disposal
polluted water/rivers
very little rules/regulations
bath houses only available for those who could afford them
Middle Ages:
true or false. health systems in monasteries were worse than in towns
FALSE.
monasteries were significantly more clean , less crowded and safe.
renaissance:
what did Edward Jenner develop the first of?
What did it cure?
Vaccine for smallpox
renaissance:
what disease did Jenner make his smallpox vaccine from
cowpox
what was the theory of miasma
the idea that disease was caused by foul smelling air
Renaissance:
what surgical technique did Paré re-introduce
the use of silk ligatures
Renaissance:
what was Paré’s new ointment made of
egg white
turpentine
and rose oil
Renaissance:
what was the method of treating battlefield wounds before Paré’s method
pouring hot oil onto the skin to seal it and ‘kill the poisons inside’
Renaissance:
who was Paré
French renaissance surgeon. worked on battlefields.
Renaissance:
explain some reasons why Lister’s work was not accepted initially
Many surgeons claimed that Lister’s antiseptic methods slowed things, at a time when speed was still essential because of blood loss.
unpleasant to use, causing skin and respiratory problems for the surgeons
Renaissance:
what happened to mortality rates after Listers introduction of carbolic acid as an antiseptic
(try and give a statistic)
Significantly decreased from
46% to 15%
Renaissance:
what did Lister use as an antiseptic
carbolic acid
Renaissance:
what did Lister do
introduced carbolic acid as an antiseptic
