Medevil England 1250-1500

Question 1

Super natural causes

Answer 1

Relating to god, demigod, spirit or devil. Not scientific

Question 2

Malnutrition

Answer 2

Illness caused by lack of food

Question 3

Famine

Answer 3

Food shortage, usually due to bad harvest

Question 4

Leprosy

Answer 4

Painful skin disease. Followed by paralysis and eventually death

Question 5

Paralysis

Answer 5

Being unable to move all or part of your body dies to illness, poison or injury

Question 6

The four humours

Answer 6

A theory which stated that as the universe was made up of the four basic elements – fire water, earth and air – so the body must also be made up of four humours which were all created by digesting different foods

Question 7

Diagnosing

Answer 7

Deciding what is wrong with someone based of their symptoms

Question 8

Physician

Answer 8

Someone who practises medicine

Question 9

Vivisection

Answer 9

Criminals can be sentenced to death by vivisection. When someone is dissected so they can be examined by a physician or a medic student

Question 10

Barber surgeon

Answer 10

Barbers worked with sharp knives, so as well as doing haircuts, they would carry out medical procedures such as blood letting

Question 11

Dysentery

Answer 11

Stomach bug that causes severe diarrhoea

Question 12

Scourge

Answer 12

A person or thing that causes great suffering

Question 13

Quarantine

Answer 13

Separating the ill from the healthy to help prevent disease. The ill cannot leave the quarantine