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Medicine Stands Still: c1100-c1500 Flashcards

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Main killers? (6)

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  • Famine
  • War
  • Malnourishment
  • Saint Anthony’s disease
  • Childbirth
  • Smallpox, dysentery, typhoid, measles
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Theory of the Four Humours:

MAKER, COMPOSITION, FACTORS (3)

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  • Hippocrates
  • Yellow Bile (Fire), Black Bile (Earth), Phlegm (Water), Blood (Air)
  • Foods & Seasons
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Theory of the Opposites:

MAKER, COMPOSITION (5)

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  • Galen
  • Yellow Bile & Blood ‘hot’
  • Phlegm & Black Bile ‘cold’
  • Blood & Phlegm ‘wet’
  • Yellow Bile & Black Bile ‘dry’
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Influence of Arab Medicine (2)

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  • Arab medicine more advanced

- Loss of medical knowledge after Roman Empire fell

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Arab Medicine: Avincenna (2)

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Philosopher and physician

Wrote number of texts

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Arab Medicine: Rhazes (2)

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Doctor

Wrote first description of smallpox symptoms

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Arab Medicine: Hospitals (2)

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Educational, lecture rooms, pharmacies, practical training

Cleanliness encouraged

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Influence of Hippocrates (4)

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  • Theory of 4 Humours
  • First to regard body as whole
  • Balanced diet & rest for recovery
  • Hippocratic oath
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Influence of Galen (3)

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  • Practiced dissection on animals to better understand human body
  • Importance of listening to pulse
  • Theory of Opposites
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Believed Causes of Disease: GOD (2)

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  •  Sinful life = difficult illness

- Doctrine of Signatures: God created diseases and also related herbs to cure them

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Believed Causes of Disease: MIASMA (2)

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  • Link between bad air and disease

- Morality higher in cities

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Believed Causes of Disease: EVERYDAY LIFE (3)

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  • Early death was inevitable
  • 30% children died before 7
  • Warfare and Famine frequent
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Believed Causes of Disease: SUPERNATURAL (2)

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  • Explain unexpected happenings

- Witchcraft popular scapegoat

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Believed Causes of Disease: FOUR HUMOURS (2)

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  • Disease meant 4 humours were out of balance

- Charts to show what humour caused illness & zodiac chart showing best treatment/ operation/ herb picking times

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Treatment: BARBER SURGEONS (4)

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  • Minor operations & amputations
  • Apprenticeship
  • In towns and cities
  • Clinical observation (wee)
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Treatment: APOTHECARY (4)

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  • More accessible
  • Sell medicine, herbs, spices
  • Apprenticeship for 7 years
  • ‘Simples’ and ‘Compounds’
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Treatment: WISE WOMEN (6)

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  • Wisdom handed down through family
  • Reasonably priced
  • Also act as midwives
  • Pay for services through barters
  • Ran risk of being accused of being a witch
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Cupping/ Leeching (3)

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  • Restore balance to 4 humours
  • 20/30 leeches used
  • Still used today
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Diagnosing Illness: URINE (2)

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  • colour and compare to chart

- smell and taste to determine illness

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Diagnosing Illness: ZODIAC CHART (2)

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  • Tell which body parts linked to which astrological sign

- Dictate what to do, best time and when to pick herbs

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John Aderne: FACTORS (3)

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War- Battle of Crecy 1346
Science- trust judgement, bedside manner, methods very modern
Chance- developed his own painkilling ointment

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John Aderne: GENERAL (3)

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  • Treated poor for free
  • Advocated bedside manner, dressing sombrely, talking calmly and considerately
  • Book- ‘Practice of Surgery’ 1350
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Medieval- Role of the Church: HELPING (2)

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  • developing hospitals

- university school of medicine

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Medieval- Role of Church: HINDERING (3)

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  • hospitals refused very ill and women
  • schools used Hippocrates and Galen
  • in way of dissecting humans
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Medieval- Role of War (2)
- cauterisation replaced with wine as antiseptic or pain-relieving ointments (opium) - army surgeons: manuals, new tools, amputations
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Medieval- Role of Science (4)
- Robert Grosseteste- optics for spectacles - Roger Bacon- advocate of scientific method and observation - Galen- dissection of animals, patient’s pulse - Microscope- 1590s in Netherlands
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Medieval Hospitals: PEOPLE ADMITTED
- not lepers, lunatics, contagious, pregnant women, babies and toddlers
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Medieval Hospitals: FOR PREGNANT AND ‘SILLY’ (2)
- 1123: St Bartholomew’s- poor, pregnant women | - 1247: St Mary of Bethlehem- poor and ‘silly’
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Medieval Hospitals: TREATMENTS (2)
1) Prayer- mass every mornings, occupants confess sins and prep to meet God 2) Herbal Remedies- nuns and monks had knowledge of herbs if attached to monastery
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Medieval Public Health: CONDITIONS (5)
- no cleaning for streets - drinking water near cesspits - no ‘zoning’ of industrial - shops sell gone off goods - sewage
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Medieval Public Health: EXCEPTIONS
Coventry: by 1421 had waste collections, clean streets, latrines over river removed
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Medieval Public Health: BATH-HOUSES (2)
- Pay to have a bath | - Also used combs, tweezers, toothpicks and mouthwash
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Black Death 1348: WHAT WAS IT?
``` Bubonic and Pneumonic Bubonic- spread by fleas - buboes - vomiting blood Pneumonic- spread by air - fever & coughing ```
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Black Death 1348: CAUSES (2)
Believed at time: position of stars, miasma, poisoning of wells by Jews, God Actual causes: bubonic plague by bacteria in fleas
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Black Death 1348: DEALING (3)
- some drank mercury - some fled to escape towns - most avoided contact with others - local councils tried to quarantine
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Black Death 1348: CONSEQUENCES (5)
- Society: one third dead between 1348 and 1350 - Economy: food wasted, animals escaped - Food: shortages, sheep farming so less bread so higher prices - Wages: demanded higher wages - Statute of Labourers
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Medieval- Role of Government (2)
- Mayors of towns made laws to implement cleaning streets | - Monarchy doesn’t care what happens to citizens
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Medieval- Role of Chance
John Aderne: experimented to create own pain- relieving ointment
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Medieval- Role of Communication
Translated works from Arabic to English and vice versa
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Medieval- Role Of Individual (6)
- John Aderne - Hippocrates - Galen - Avicenna/ Rhazes - Roger Bacon - Robert Grosseteste

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