Health And Medicine

Question 1

Typhoid

Answer 1

type of fever and is spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with the faeces of an infected person.

Question 2

Smallpox

Answer 2

contagious and deadly virus for which there is no known cure.

Question 3

Influenza/flu

Answer 3

mild to severe though during the Middle Ages it often killed

Question 4

Leprosy

Answer 4

progressive bacterial infection which affects the nerves, the skin, the lining of the nose, and the upper respiratory tract.

Question 5

common treatments

Answer 5

Bloodletting/Bleeding: cutting the patient so that they bled.
Cupping: placing heated metal cups on the skin to draw fluids to the surface.
Leeching: using leeches to draw the blood or other fluids out of the body. ➢Amputation: cutting off a limb.
• Herbal medicine was common https

Question 6

who treated the sick?

Answer 6

Surgeons who were barbers and had no training ( to be a surgeon)