Mediaeval to Renaissance treatment of disease

Question 1

Did bleeding and purging continue or change

Answer 1

Remain popular to balance the four humours

Question 2

What was used to purge the bowels during the great plague

Answer 2

Rhubarb

Question 3

Why didn’t purging work

Answer 3

Weakened patients

Question 4

Herbal remedies remain popular or change 

Answer 4

Remain very popular

Question 5

What were books are used to spread ideas about

Answer 5

Herbs

Question 6

What stayed the same about religion

Answer 6

Many people still prayed and some people wore charms

Question 7

What was a new idea about treatment of disease during the renaissance

Answer 7

Transferrence 

Question 8

What was transferrence the idea of

Answer 8

An illness could be transferred from a patient to something else if you rub an object on it

Question 9

What would people rub on warts to transfer it

Answer 9

Onions

Question 10

What changed about herbal remedies

Answer 10

Exploration of the New World brought new herbs and spices that people in England hadn’t seen before

Question 11

What was the first plague called and when was it

Answer 11

The Black Death
1348-1349

Question 12

What was the second plague called and when was it

Answer 12

The great plague
1665 - 1666

Question 13

What caused the Black Death

Answer 13

Germs carried on fleas on the back of rats which carried the disease from Asia

Question 14

What caused the great plague

Answer 14

Poor sanitation which led to sewage and waste being discarded in the streets and river
This resulted in an increase in the population of black rats which carried the bubonic plague bacteria

Question 15

What occurred during the Black Death

Answer 15

Flaggents whipped themself’s
A plague doctor would inspect suspected cases of the plague and isolate the infected and their families in there homes
Isolation of people in plague hospitals

Question 16

Which plague was more coordinated

Answer 16

The great plague

Question 17

What was done during the great plague

Answer 17

Government induced a quarantine for all ships coming to London
If a house contained someone infected with the plague they were locked inside with a red cross painted on their door
People lit fires in the streets to use the smoke to block out the bad smells (miasma)
No stranger was allowed to enter a town unless they had a certificate of health

Question 18

When did the great plague rise and fall

Answer 18

Rose during the summer of 1665
And had fallen by the winter and into 1666

Question 19

Causes of the plague that people believed

Answer 19

Miasma
the four humours
God

Question 20

What they believed cured the Black Death

Answer 20

Bloodletting and purging widely used showing that for humans were still believed
Praying to god


Question 21

What does plague doctors outfits contain to protect them

Answer 21

Herbs to avoid them smelling the street and gloves and hat so none of the skin was exposed to the air

Question 22

Why did the black death kill more people than the great plague

Answer 22

Due to the government being more organised in response to the great plague