Facts- Medicine

Question 1

What is a barber surgeon?

Answer 1

Barber who could also carry out minor operations

Example: Trimming hair and performing simple surgeries

Question 2

When did the Laws of King Edgar allow women to train as doctors?

Answer 2

c960

Question 3

Which hospital was founded in 1123 in London?

Answer 3

St Bartholomew’s

Question 4

In what year did the Black Death reach England?

Answer 4

1348

Question 5

When did the Norman Conquest happen?

Answer 5

1066

Question 6

What is the name of the Holy wars 1095-1289?

Answer 6

The Crusades

Question 7

What is Bald’s Leechbook?

Answer 7

Anglo Saxon medical text

Question 8

What was a urine chart used for in 11th Century Britain?

Answer 8

To diagnose illness

Question 9

Name one way that John of Arderne anaesthetised his patients.

Answer 9

hemlock, opium, henbane

Question 10

What surgical procedure was John of Arderne famous for?

Answer 10

The removal of rectal growths

Question 11

What were the 2 main religious movements in the Middle Ages?

Answer 11

Christianity and Islam

Question 12

Who was the Greek God of healing?

Answer 12

Asclepius

Question 13

Name two types of public health measure built by the Romans.

Answer 13

Aqueducts, public baths, public toilets, sanitation systems, hospitals

Question 14

Fill in the blank… The __________ Oath

Answer 14

Hippocratic

Question 15

Who invented the Theory of the 4 Humours?

Answer 15

Hippocrates

Question 16

Give two reasons why monks were important in the development of health and medicine in the Middle Ages?

Answer 16

copied out ancient texts, grew medicinal plants, knowledge of medicinal plants, tended the sick in infirmaries

Question 17

How many hospitals were set up in 12th and 13th centuries in Britain?

Answer 17

160

Question 18

What did people in the Middle Ages believe caused disease?

Answer 18

imbalance of bodily humours, miasma, divine punishment

Question 19

What is Miasma?

Answer 19

The idea that bad air caused disease

Question 20

Name two diagnosic tools in a doctor’s bag in the Middle Ages.

Answer 20

Urine chart, Zodiac chart

Question 21

Name two treatments in a doctor’s bag in the Middle Ages.

Answer 21

leeches, cupping, camomile tea, bamboo juice

Question 22

What was an apothecary?

Answer 22

A type of pharmacy

Question 23

What is public health?

Answer 23

Promoting and protecting the health of people in their communities

Question 24

How did people in medieval Britian try to prevent illness?

Answer 24

By keeping clean, avoiding polluted areas and using charms for spiritual protection

Question 25

Give two reasons why monasteries were healthy?

Answer 25

built with sewage systems, access to fresh water, physic gardens, hand washing before prayer, infirmaries

Question 26

Give two reasons why Coventry was an example of good public health.

Answer 26

rules to clean street in front of house, fines brought in, waste sold to farmers, waste collection from 1420 paid for by residents, locations for waste pits specified, latrines removed from water courses

Question 27

Who was Galen?

Answer 27

Famous Roman physician

Question 28

How did Galen develop health and medicine?

Answer 28

Pig experiment, arteries carry blood, urine formed in the kidney, developed 4 Humours

Question 29

How did Galen hinder the development of health and medicine?

Answer 29

Experimented on animals not humans and so got things wrong

Question 30

What percentage of the population died as a result of the Black Death?

Answer 30

50%