Medicine-Middle Ages

Question 1

Which former gladiator doctor developed the opposites theory and dissected animals?

Answer 1

Galen

Question 2

Name the 4 Humours

Answer 2

Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood

Question 3

How would a doctor have treated a patient whose humours were out of balance?

Answer 3

They would be treated with the opposite to rebalance the humours-for example if they have a cold, they would be treated with something hot. If they had too much blood, then they would be bled.

Question 4

What is a barber surgeon?

Answer 4

A barber who was also a surgeon, carried out surgery such as blood letting to amputations

Question 5

What is an apothecary?

Answer 5

A pharmacist or chemist

Question 6

When were the Middle Ages?

Answer 6

500AD-1500AD

Question 7

How were women involved in medicine during the Middle Ages?

Answer 7

Women issued many of the herbal remedies.

Question 8

Which organisation insisted that there was nothing wrong with the old ideas during the Middle Ages?

Answer 8

The Catholic Church

Question 9

Name 2 things people thought caused plague during the Black Death?

Answer 9

Could have: God or the devil, minority groups such as the Jews, evil humours, miasma (bad air), the planets.

Question 10

Why did some people (flagellents) whip themselves during the Black Death?

Answer 10

To show God that they had repented their sins. They were punishing themselves so that God didn’t punish them with the Black Death

Question 11

What did Medieval Physicians use a urine chart for?

Answer 11

To examine the colour, odour and density to check if the humours were unbalanced.

Question 12

What is the zodiac man?

Answer 12

This is a chart used to show the doctor when to treat certain parts of the body.

Question 13

What did the Christian church set up in the Middle Ages?

Answer 13

Hospitals to care for the sick

Question 14

Who was al-Razi or Rhazes?

Answer 14

Arab doctor who wrote over 200 books, studied the ideas of the Ancients. Also discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.

Question 15

Who was Ibn Sina?

Answer 15

Arab doctor whose wrote a medical encyclopaedia called The Canon, this was used by doctors until the 1600s

Question 16

What work did surgeons carry out in the Middle Ages?

Answer 16

Bleeding, battlefield surgery, cataract surgery, minor surgery such as the removal of lumps, pulling teeth, setting broken bones.

Question 17

Why did public health deteriorate during the Middle Ages?

Answer 17

Governments and kings did not think it was their responsibility, they were reactive to illness not proactive. People did not want to pay to help keep people healthy.

Question 18

When did the Black Death come to England?

Answer 18

1348

Question 19

What else is the Black Death known as?

Answer 19

Bubonic Plague

Question 20

Who went to prison because they challenged Galen’s ideas?

Answer 20

Roger Bacon

Question 21

What factors hindered medicine during the Middle Ages?

Answer 21

Government, religion, attitudes: conservatism

Question 22

Who treated the sick in the Middle Ages?

Answer 22

Women, surgeons, priests, physicians

Question 23

How useful is this source as evidence of beleifs about causes during the Middle Ages?

Answer 23

Useful: tell us they believed in miasma as the doctor is throwing herbs in the air.

Not useful: it doesnt tell us about God, minority groups, bad humours.