medicine

Question 1

What was the function of aqueducts?

Answer 1

transported water from rivers and lakes into towns and cities where it was needed most.
Often ran for miles.
Could transport 2 million gallons of water a day

Question 2

What was the function of water pipes?

Answer 2

Built from lead, these carried clean water into towns and distributed it among the population

Question 3

How did the Romans encourage their population to keep clean?

Answer 3

They made baths a fun and cheap experience to visit, which led to better health

Question 4

what did they believe caused disease in the middle ages?

Answer 4

• work of galen and the four humors
• illness and disease were punishments from god- they had to pray to god for forgiveness
• bad air

Question 5

why did people still believe in the works or galen and the four humors?

Answer 5

because it was what the church believed

Question 6

what influence did the christian church have in the middle ages?

Answer 6

• taught that illness/disease was sent as punishment from God- cures would only come from God
• n supported Galen’s idea of four humors as it fitted the church’s idea that God created all humans
• monasteries and covents have the best libraries- some provided training for doctors- taught four humors but were not encouraged to prove galen wrong

Question 7

what was the treatment in the middle ages?

Answer 7

• physicians/ doctors had some medical training
• urine charts and astrology to diagnose and treat illness
• doctors only treated rich- most illnesses dealt at home by local village healers (usually women)
• wise women provided herbal remedies and advice on curing illness and infections
• hospitals were places of rest- not used for infections or terminally ill patients- were usually attached to monasteries/ covents

Question 8

what was the public health and living conditions in the middle ages?

Answer 8

• streets covered in rubbish and human and animal waste
• water was often contaminated by sewage and animal blood from butchers
• government laws to keep streets clean were difficult to enforce
• monasteries and covents generally healthier places- had own public health system and fresh water and toilets

Question 9

what were the four humors?

Answer 9

• blood
• black bile
• yellow bile
• phlegm
  believed that an imbalance in these would cause illness