Medicine - Medieval

Question 1

Why was medical progress hindered during the Medieval period?

Answer 1

Because the Church supported only Galen’s ideas, the church was very powerful and would consider any other idea heresy.

Question 2

What is Roger Bacon’s importance during this period?

Answer 2

He suggested the Church should loook beyond Galen’s book for medical ideas. He was accused of heresy and arrested.
He serves as an example of how the Church hindered medical progress.

Question 3

When was the Black Death?

Answer 3

1348

Question 4

Where could you get medical assistance during the Medieval period?

Answer 4

• Monasteries: worked as a sort of hospital
• Apothecaries
• Barber-surgeons
• Monks/Nuns
• Family Members

Question 5

What were the believed causes of disease in the Medieval period?

Answer 5

• Miasma
• Four Humours
• God or Sin

Question 6

What are the Four Humours?

Answer 6

• Phlegm
• Blood
• Black bile
• Yellow bile

Question 7

What was Galen’s theory of opposites?

Answer 7

As an imbalanced humour was believed to cause illness, Galen believed if the patient then balances the humour then they would get better