Med Middle Ages

Question 1

What were the 4 humours?

Answer 1

Blood
Yellow bile
Black bile
Phlegm

Question 2

Who made the 4 humours?

Answer 2

Hippocrates

Question 3

What was galens theory?

Answer 3

Theory of opposites

Question 4

When was the Black Death?

Answer 4

1348

Question 5

What did they think caused the Black Death?

Answer 5

Planets
God
Outsiders
Miasma
4 humours

Question 6

How did they try to prevent it?

Answer 6

Praying
Fasting
Flagellates (whipped themselves)
Cleaned streets
Carried oranges
Rung bells (to move air)

Question 7

How did they treat it?

Answer 7

Praying
Cutting open buboes
Holding bread over buboes
Eating cold things
Taking cold baths

Question 8

Did people believe that god caused the disease?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

How much control did the church have?

Answer 9

EVERYTHING
education
People leant what the church wanted them to

Question 10

What did the church ban?

Answer 10

Dissection

Question 11

What did this mean if you couldn’t dissect?

Answer 11

Knowledge of medicine slowed, slower progression for treatments.

Question 12

Did the church encourage doctors or women to look after the sick?

Answer 12

Women

Question 13

How did they treat it?

Answer 13

Theory of opposite
Mothers - home remedies
Doctors - medicines
No hospitals but did have churches and monks