Medicine (Question 2)

Question 1

How did Medieval people aim to stop the spread of the BLACK DEATH

Answer 1

• Travellers were quarantined, infected families were boarded up in their homes.
• Believed scented flowers or buckets of dung helped avoid bad air (miasma)
• Doctors wore hoods, with a beak stuffed with herbs or sponges soaked in vinegar.
• Flagellants whipped themselves so that God would not punish them further.

Question 2

WELSH EXAMPLE in ways to prevent illness

Answer 2

physicians from the village of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, used the stars to give advice to prevent illness

Question 3

Who did Medieval people turn to for help about diseases?

Answer 3

• Soothsayer
• collect plants and herbs, special stones, anything that might help, and carry
  this about with them in a willow basket.
• They would make special charms to protect against evil.

Question 4

WELSH EXAMPLE for soothsayer

Answer 4

• Dynion hysbys
• it was believed that these wise men had the
  power to break spells and undo evils spread by witches in order to safeguard people and animals

Question 5

How did they inoculate in the 1800’s?

Answer 5

Inoculation involved spreading matter from a smallpox scab onto an open cut on a healthy person’s skin, giving them a mild dose of the disease

Question 6

Welsh example for Vaccination

Answer 6

• In Newport, some parents were

prosecuted for refusing to have their children vaccinated

Question 7

When and how did they realise that bacteria caused disease?

Answer 7

• Robert Koch began to identify the bacteria that caused specific diseases starting with TB in 1882

Question 8

What did Robert Koch learn about antibodies?

Answer 8

Koch realised antibodies could destroy bacteria and build immunity against the disease. Each
antibody only worked one bacteria. If you could introduce a weakened form of the disease into the body when the deadly version of the disease attacked, the body would be able to resist