Limitations Of Medival Surgery 📚

Question 1

Why was medival surgery risky for the patients?

Answer 1

.operated without effective painkillers
.had no idea that dirt carried disease

Question 2

What is bloodletting?

Answer 2

Frequently to balance the humours

Question 3

What is amputation?

Answer 3

Cutting off a painful or damaged part of the body

Question 4

What was trepanning?

Answer 4

Drilling a hole into the skull to ‘let the demon out’

Question 5

What was cauterisation?

Answer 5

Burning a wound to stop the flow of blood using a heated iron

Question 6

What was cauterisation?

Answer 6

Burning a wound to stop the flow of blood using a heated iron

Question 7

What were some natural anaesthetics?

Answer 7

.mandrake root
.opium
.hemloke

Question 8

Hugh of Lucca and his son Theodoric

Answer 8

.in 1267, criticised the common view that pus was needed for a wound to heal
• used wine on wounds to reduce the chances of infection and had new methods of removing arrows
• their ideas to prevent infection clashed with Hippocratic advice and did not become popular

Question 9

John of Arderne

Answer 9

.the most famous surgeon in Medieval England who set up a Guild of Surgeons’ in London in 1368
.his surgical manual Practica (1376) was based on
and Arab knowledge and his experience in the Hundred Years War between England and France