Medicine Flashcards
Why did people not challenge the church and their medicine theories?
Because it was gods plan. So if you challenged the church you were challenging god and people didn’t want to go to hell
Who was thrown in jail for questioning the church?
Roger bacon
What years were the medieval?
1250-1500
What were the 4 mains cures for illness in the medieval times?
- herbal remedies
- bleeding
- praying
- opposites
Name 4 reasons why medicine didn’t change in the medieval times.
- education
- church
- government
- beliefs and attitudes
Who had the most influence on people in the medieval times?
The church
Name the 4 humours and what they are associated with
Yellow bile - hot and dry, air, summer
Blood - wet and hot, air, spring
Phlegm - wet and cool, water, winter
Black bile - cold and dry, autumn, earth
What were the theories of what/why caused disease
- god punishing you for your sins
- astrology
- miasma
- demons
- your 4 humours being unbalanced
Cholera
When was the new London sewer introduced?
1875
Cholera
When was the second cholera outbreak?
1854
Soho - London
Cholera
When was John Snow’s theory on the spread of cholera?
That cholera was spread by water contamination not by miasma
Cholera
What was the pump called that was causing cholera?
Broad street water pump
Cholera
Why was John snow not listened to by the government?
There was no scientific evidence
Cholera
When was the first cholera epidemic?
1848-9
Cholera
What was the doctor living in Soho that studied the outbreak?
John Snow