Health and the People Flashcards
What are the 9 main themes in health throughout history?
🤺war
🛐religion
🤷♀️chance
👩⚖️government
📠communication
🔬science and technology
📈economy
💡new ideas
💃role of the individual
What is the criteria for assessing historical significance?
-importance at the time
-importance to people living today
-How deeply people’s lives were affected
-Quantity of lives affected
-Durability (how long people’s lives were affected)
What was the average lifespan in…
The medieval world
The end of the medieval world
The renaissance
The Industrial Revolution
The modern era
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What did doctors know from
a)Ancient Egypt
b)Ancient Greece
c)Ancient Rome
a)Belief in the afterlife; pharaohs had doctors; mummification removed organs (believed heart to be center of one’s intelligence and other organs to eat and breathe)
b)Hippocrates introduced clinical observation and diagnosis and recommended natural remedies; wealthy lifestyle allowed time to think; Theory of 4 humors; still some supernatural ideas
c)Galen developed theory of four humors; Natural and supernatural (Asclepion-sacred medical centers); ideas fit with Christianity.
Hippocrates
1)Birth-death?
2)Where was he from?
3)What were six of his beliefs?
4) What is his significance today?
1) 460BC-370BC
2) Kos in Greece
3)✵Hippocratic oath-always act to patient’s best interests
✵Clinical observation used to decide best treatment
✵Treat body as a whole, not individual parts
✵ 4 Humors should be balanced
✵Diet + rest = very important
✵Illness is natural, not godly. Priests and doctors are separate
4) Hippocratic Oath and clinical observation.
What is the theory of the four humors?
The body consisted of four humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile) that should be in balance and a person became ill if they were out of balance. A doctor’s job was to restore balance eg by bloodletting to get rid of the ‘bad blood’
Galen
1)birth-death?
2) What did he do?
3) What was his ideas?
4) How significant are they in the long term?
1) 130AD-210AD
2)Travelled- studied medicine in Egypt before travelling to Rome.
Worked as a doctor in gladiator school so saw SOME human anatomy
3)✵Built on theory of the four humors Developed opposites
✵Galen dissected animals and believed them to be similar to humans
4)The Church liked Galen’s work as it supported the design theory. They banned people questioning his work and human dissections were also banned. As a result, his ideas were used up until the 1700s. Roger Bacon went to prison for advocating scientific observation.
What could a medieval doctor do?
How did they diagnose?
They looked at two factors- the pulse and the smell, colour and taste of urine.
From this, natural medicines from plants, animal products, spices, oils, wines, and rocks were made.
Bloodletting, natural laxative, prayers, charms, astrology were also used.
urine charts or zodiac charts- said which parts of the body were linked to which signs; said when the medicine should be made and administered according to the moon.
What training did a medieval doctor get?
Seven years of study in a university like Oxbridge. Mostly listening to lectures, debating books and reading church approved texts such as Galen. Many doctors qualified without doing any practical work. Warfare helped surgeons improve skills. British doctors learned Hippocrates, Galen, Muslim, Indian and Chinese worlds. Medical theory, recipes, charms and Christian prayers.
Fall of Roman empire led to huge regression in medicine.
What were examples of medieval treatments?
Headache? Drink warm chamomile tea and lie down on a rosemary+lavender scented pillow for 15 mins.
Aching joints? Equal parts radish, bishopwort, garlic, wormwood, helenium, cropleek, hollowleek. Pound them up and boil in butter w/ celandine&red nettle. Keep in brass pot until misture turns red and rub on area.
Toothache? Worms are destroying the tooth. Burn with candle, worms will fall into cold water.
What did medieval people think caused disease?
✝ God sent plague/illness when society was sinful.
⭕ Everyday life. Quality of life was so bad that child/labour death was common and war and famine were common
➍The humors out of balance
👃Miasma. Death lower in the countryside. In towns, people lived together with animals and filth
🪐Alignment of the planets, especially the moon. Both body and planets made of earth, fire, water, air. All must be in harmony, no inbalances
✨Supernatural. Mystery and magic. Witchcraft & demons
What did the ordinary poor do?
University trained doctors were expensive. Barber surgeons were common and combined haircuts with small operations like tooth extraction, bloodletting and setting broken bones. They would be first trained as an apprentice to a previous barber surgeon, and also were trained on the battlefield.
Wise wo(men) used herbal remedies, first aid and supernatural, passed down by word of mouth, runs in the family.
What were Christian ideas about healing the sick?
What were the most important Christian treatments?
Jesus healed the sick, so they founded hospitals. Curing an illness could be seen as challenging God’s will. So caring for patients was necessary, curing was not.
Praying to God. Miraculous healing encouraged. Shrines filled with relics of Saint’s body parts, which people made pilgrimage to. Like the shrine to St Thomas Becket. St Bernard ‘To buy drugs or consult physicians doesn’t fit with religion.’ Galen was also followed.
How many hospitals were started in England between 1000 and 1500?
What was the structure of medieval hospitals?
Named examples?
700
12 patients (Jesus’s disciples) with a chaplain, run by monks or nuns under diet and prayer. No doctors. Financed by Church or a wealthy patron. Monasteries had infirmaries that provided free treatment to the sick and poor.
Bedlam in London- asylum for mentally ill
St Leonard’s in York- large hospital
Lazar houses- dealt with leprosy and isolated the sick, contagious people.
What did Christianity teach in universities about medicine?
According to Christianity, what was the role of the doctor?
The ancient Greek ideas. The training made old knowledge clearer, not discovering new ideas. Galen’s ideas fit with monotheism, so any criticism against them was criticism against the Church.
Not a healer, but one who could predict the symptoms and duration of an illness, and give reasons why God has done it. It gave people comfort and allowed their affairs to be in order before they died.
What were Islamic attitudes and principles about health and medicine?
There was stability which encouraged time for medical research. Many Caliphs were interested in science and medicine. Baghdad became a center for the translation of Greek manuscripts into Arabic, so they were preserved, but the West had lost them all with the fall of the Roman Empire. Prophet Muhammed said to seek learning as far as China, and ‘For every disease, Allah has given a cure’
What were Islamic hospitals like?
The first hospitals were set up for people with mental illness- they were treated with compassion as victims of an unfortunate illness.
805, Caliph al-Rashid set up a major new hospital in Baghdad with a medical school and a library. They intended to TREAT the patients. Bimaristans provided medical care for all people. Doctors were permanently present and medical students trained along with them.
Al-Razi
-Known as?
-birth-death?
-What did he think was important?
-What did he discover?
-What did he write?
-Ideas about Galen?
-Rhazes
-AD865-AD925
-The need for careful observation of the patient
-Distinguished measles from smallpox
-over 150 books
-Follower of Galen, but believed students should improve their teacher. Wrote ‘Doubts on Galen’
Ibn Sina
-Known as?
-Birth-death?
-What did he write?
-What did that book become?
-Avicenna
-980AD-1037AD
-Canon of Medicine. Over a million words, covered all Greek and Islamic knowledge listed the properties of 760 different drugs and contained chapters on obesity and anorexia.
-The standard European medical textbook until the 17th century
Ibn al Nafis
-Birth-Death?
-From?
-What did he think?
-What did he write about?
-How well received was he in the West?
-1213AD-1288AD
-Damascus, Syria
-Described how blood is circulated via the lungs (disagreed with Galen)
-Many medical topics (eye disease, diet)
-Not well. Contradicted Galen
How did Islamic medical ideas enter the West?
Latin translations of a merchant named Constantine the African . Grerad of Cremona continued with this.
What were some of the practices that a barber surgeon did?
What were the main problems with surgery?
What was used to prevent this problem?
What was cauterization?
What were common tools for medieval surgery?
bloodletting (restore balance of the four humors)
Amputation (was successful for breast cancer, bladder stones and hemorrhoids)
Trepanning (drilling a hole to get the epileptic demon out)
Pain, shock, infection
Mandrake root, opium and alcohol were some natural anesthetics, but too strong a dose could kill.
Burning the wound to stop the flow of blood- done with a heated iron and was very painful.
Amputation saws;arrow pullers; cautery irons; bloodletting knives.
Abulcasis
✎What did he write?
✎What did he invent?
✎What process did he use?
Frugardi
✎What did he write?
✎What did he do?
Hugh of Lucca and his son Theodoric
✎What did their book say?
✎ What did they do?
✎How well were they recieved?
✎Father of modern surgery
✎30vol medical book Al Tasrif in 1000
✎Invented 26 new surgical instruments
✎Used ligatures for tying blood vessels. Made cauterization popular.
✎The Practice of Surgery 1180. Widely used in Europe
✎Warned against trepanning ,tried operations on the chest ,attempted to remove bladder stones
✎Famous Italian surgeons
✎1267. Criticized common view that pus needed for a wound to heal.
✎Used wine on wounds to reduce chances of infection and had different methods of removing arrows.
✎Went against Hippocratic advice so did not become popular.
Mondino
✎What happened in 1315?
✎What was his book about?
✎What did dissections show?
De Chauliac
✎ What did his textbook contain?
John of Arderne
✎What did his surgical manual contain?
✎What was it based on?
✎What did he use to dull pain?
✎What did he treat?
✎ What did he try to do?
✎New interest in anatomy in 14th century
✎Public dissection allowed in Bologna, supervised by him
✎1316. Anathomia was standard dissection manual for over 200 years.
✎Introduced in most European universities to show Galen was correct. When disproved, they said the body was wrong.
✎Famous French surgeon
✎Great Surgery (1363) dominated for 200 years References to Greek and Islamic ideas like Avicenna, quoted Galen ~890 times. Was the reason of Lucca’s ideas didn’t catch on, as he wrote against them
✎Famous medieval surgeon
✎Practica 1376 illustrations of operations & instruments
✎Greek & Arab knowledge + experience in 100yr war between France and England.
✎Opium and henbane
✎Anal abscess (swelling with pus
✎1368, tried to separate surgeons from lower class barbers by creating ‘The Guild of Surgeons within the city of London’