Limitations of medival surgery

Question 1

Medieval surgery was a risky business for the patient because surgeons :

Answer 1

1)operated without effective painkillers
2)had no idea that dirt carried the disease
3)could not help patients with deep wounds to the body
4)sometimes they thought pus in a wound was good

Question 2

Medical surgical procedures

Answer 2

.Bloodletting - frequently to balance the humor
.Amputation - cutting off a painful or damaged part of the body
.Trepanning - drilling a hole into the skull to ‘let the demon out’ e.g. for epilepsy
.Cauterisation - burning a wound to stop the flow of blood using heated iron

Question 3

Natural anaesthetics

Answer 3

mandrake roots, opium, and hemlock were used, but too much might kill the patient.

Question 4

Abulcasis

Answer 4

. A Muslim surgeon, wrote a 30-volume medical book, Al Tasrif, in 1000
.Invented 26 new surgical instruments and many new procedures e.g. ligatures
.made cauterisation popular

Question 5

Hugh of Lucca and his son Theodoric :

Answer 5

. In 1267 , criticised the common view that pus was needed for a wound to heal.
.Used wine on wounds to reduce chances on infection and had new methods of removing arrows