Factors in Medieval Medicine Flashcards
1
Q
What was common?
A
War
2
Q
What did war lead to advancements in?
A
Surgery and treatment of wounds
3
Q
What was cauterisation partly replaced by?
A
Wine as an antiseptic to clean wounds and Ardene’s pain relieving ointment
4
Q
Why did drugs to knock out patients kill?
A
Dosages weren’t understood
5
Q
What were army surgeons quick at?
A
Amputations without anaesthetic
6
Q
What tool removed arrows?
A
Arrow cup
7
Q
What spread knowledge?
A
Manuals
8
Q
Example of a diagram produced to help other surgeons
A
Wound Man
9
Q
Who encouraged scientific scientific enquiry and equipment?
A
Robert Grosseteste, Oxford University and the Bishop of Lincoln
10
Q
What did Grosseteste and the Bishop of Lincoln’s work encourage the development of?
A
Spectacles
11
Q
Who opposed the religious views supporting Galen?
A
Roger Bacon
