EVERYTHING Flashcards
Who created the theory of the 4 humours?
Hippocrates
What is the theory of the 4 humours?
That the body was made of 4 elements: Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile and Black Bile and when they were out of balance a person became ill
What did they do when the 4 humours were unbalanced to fix it?
Purging (making themselves sick) or Bleeding a patient with leeches or cutting to reduce the amount of blood in their body
Who created the theory of opposites?
Galen
What was the theory of opposites?
It was to give patients the ‘opposite’ of their symptoms to restore balance between the 4 humours
How were medieval hospitals like?
Very clean, only patients close to death could have their own bed and they were set up by the church
How was religion seen with health in medieval times?
They believed the supernatural caused illness, that disease was a punishment from god, people prayed to cure diseases and dissection of human corpses were forbidden so anatomy was not accurate
What was the progress in medieval surgery?
They knew alcohol could be used as a antiseptic (clean away germs) and herbs was used as medicine as pain control
What is miasma?
They believed that the cause of disease was by the bad smell from the dirty towns
Why were rivers and streams often contaminated?
Because they threw their human waste in it
What were cesspits?
It was pits for the disposal of sewage and were often close by with contaminated water
How were medieval monasteries more clean than towns?
They often had running water systems and sewers and they used downstream water for waste
What was the Black Death?
It was the outbreak of the bubonic plague with systems of buboes (swelling in the groin and armpit), a fever and coughing up blood
What was the Black Death caused by?
Bacteria carried from inflected fleas on rats that came from ships and the dirty conditions made it so it spread quickly
What did medieval people think caused the Black Death?
Miasma and God punishing them
