Medicine: c1250-c1500

Question 1

apothecary

Answer 1

medical practitioner who mixed remedies for patients

Question 2

barber surgeons

Answer 2

barbers who carried out medical procedures like bloodletting

Question 3

dissection

Answer 3

cutting something open

Question 4

excommunication

Answer 4

getting expelled from the Church (condemned to hell)

Question 5

monks/nuns

Answer 5

members of churchs

Question 6

physicians

Answer 6

medieval medical practitioners (doctors)

Question 7

medieval: causes of disease

Answer 7

theory of 4 humours
sin/punishment from god
miasma
astrology

Question 8

theory of 4 humours : cause of disease

Answer 8

body is made up of yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, blood
ancient Greek belief
believed by ancient Hippocrates and Galen

Question 9

sin : cause of disease

Answer 9

Church taught that god sent punishment for sin

Question 10

Miasma : causes of disease

Answer 10

Belief that bad air was filled with harmful fumes that caused illness

Question 11

astrology : causes of disease

Answer 11

misalignment of the planets and stars caused illness

Question 12

treatment of diseases : medieval

Answer 12

bloodletting/bleeding
prayer/self-flaggelation
fasting/purging
herbal remedies
theory of opposite

Question 13

bloodletting : treatment

Answer 13

cutting open blood vessel to allow blood out to rebalance 4 humours

Question 14

Prayer : treatment

Answer 14

asking god to take away your illness

Question 15

self-flagellating : treatment

Answer 15

whipping yourself to show god you are sorry for whatever caused u to get ill

Question 16

fasting : treatment

Answer 16

rebalances the 4 humours

Question 17

purging : treatment

Answer 17

vomiting out excess 4 humour

Question 18

herbal remedies

Answer 18

mix of herbs
aloe vera was used to aid digestion

Question 19

theory of opposites

Answer 19

galens teaching
using contrasting elememts would treat illness
cucumber treated hot/dry patients

Question 20

Medieval prevention

Answer 20

maintaining 4 humour balance
being good christian
preventing miasma: pomander, carrying posies

Question 21

pomander : prevention

Answer 21

necklace with herbs to counteract miasma

Question 22

medieval : treatment by who

Answer 22

hospitals run by church prayed and washed patients
physicians with 7-10 yrs of professional uni learning
barber surgeons
apothecaries

Question 23

medieval : individuals

Answer 23

Hippocrates
Galen
Roger Bacon

Question 24

Hippocrates

Answer 24

greek physicians
now used in hippocratic oath
created theory of 4 humours

Question 25

Galen

Answer 25

Roman physician
developed Hippocrates
made theory of opposites

Question 26

Roger Bacon

Answer 26

medieval philosopher
excommunicated for encouraging scientific experimentation

Question 27

reasons for lack of development in med : medieval

Answer 27

Church
Attitudes in society

Question 28

why the church limited development in medieval medicine

Answer 28

-books were written and copied by monks in churches so no external ideas spread
-books housed in monastery library so no external sources of education
-excommunicated those who taught against what they taught (Roger Bacon)

Question 29

Why attitudes in society limited medical development medieval

Answer 29

-respected trad ideas (hippocrates and galen)
-dissection of humans was unpopular bc people believed human bodies were sacred
-respected church’s restrictive beliefs

Question 30

theriaca : treatment

Answer 30

spice for antidotes of posions

Question 31

aloe vera : treatment

Answer 31

plant used to help digestion

Question 32

where did most people recieve treatment

Answer 32

women at home

Question 33

regimen sanitatis

Answer 33

health manual explaining diet hydration and hygiene

Question 34

The black death

Answer 34

1348 outbreak of bubonic plague killed around 50% of europes population

Question 35

bursting black death buboes

Answer 35

physicians did this (painful) but sometimes allowed patient to live

Question 36

key points ab black death

Answer 36

• not understood
• not treated
• returned around every 10 yrs
• gvmt tried to introduce quarantines between cities

Question 37

leprosy

Answer 37

painful skin codition caused by mycobacterium that causes paralysis and eventually death

Question 38

how was leprosy treated

Answer 38

it wasnt
they were sent to leper colonies and prayed together

Question 39

rules for people with leprosy

Answer 39

• ring a bell to announce presence
  weak cloaks
  could walk down narrow alleys