Medicine Through Time

Question 1

Which two physicians did most Medieval physicians base their practice on?

Answer 1

Hippocrates and Galen

Question 2

What does Renaissance mean?

Answer 2

re-birth of knowledge

Question 3

What disease killed around 1/3 to 1/2 of people in 1348?

Answer 3

The Black Death

Question 4

What bacteria caused the Black Death?

Answer 4

Yersinia Pestis

Question 5

Where did the Black Death come from?

Answer 5

Trade carried it from China to Turkey to Venice to the rest of Europe

Question 6

People living in Lazar houses had what disease?

Answer 6

Leprosy

Question 7

What were symptoms of leprosy?

Answer 7

Swellings, Ulcers, paralysis and death

Question 8

What were lepers (people with leprosy) not allowed to do and what does this suggest about Medieval Knowledge of disease transmission?

Answer 8

Walk in alleyways

Suggesting Medieval people knew if you got close to a leper then you may catch leprosy

Question 9

What was the name for ‘bad air?’

Answer 9

Miasma

Question 10

Name the four humours

Answer 10

Blood, black Bile, yellow bile, phlegm

Question 11

The one main medieval development of the four humours was called ‘transference.’ What was this?

Answer 11

People believed if you slept next to a sheep or strapped a rat to your area of illness, the disease may ‘transfer’ onto the animal.

Question 12

Which physician and scientist was locked in prison for 14 years because they kept experimenting without the Church’s permission?

Answer 12

Roger Bacon

Question 13

How many years was Roger Bacon put in jail by the Church for illegal experiments?

Answer 13

14

Question 14

What was the tax raised by the Church to pay for monasteries and churches and how much did people have to pay?

Answer 14

Tithes - 10% of their income

Question 15

What three buildings did tithes pay for in the Medieval Era?

Answer 15

Convents, Monasteries and Churches

Question 16

How many books did Galen write?

Answer 16

350

Question 17

How many star signs are there in astrology?

Answer 17

12

Question 18

What personality problem was a Leo believed to have due to astrology?

Answer 18

A Leo would be born hot headed

Question 19

How many days did people with the plague have to quarantine?

Answer 19

40

Question 20

What are ‘alms-houses’?

Answer 20

This is a poor house. They would feed and take care of the poor.

Question 21

What was the name of a bunch of flowers used to keep safe from Miasma?

Answer 21

Posies

Question 22

In Church Hospitals they regularly cleaned and drank clean water. Why was this?

Answer 22

They believed that ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness.’.

Question 23

Where did you get buboes if you had the plague?

Answer 23

On your lymph system - armpits, neck and groin

Question 24

How much of the English population during the Black Death?

Answer 24

Between 1/3 and 1/2

Question 25

What were people who whipped themselves to apologise to God?

Answer 25

Flagellants

Question 26

What were some examples of cures used to 'help' people with the Black Death?

Answer 26

consuming herbs, vinegar, bleeding or rubbing oil on the buboes. They may also use 'transference' which is putting as toad/rat on a buboe in the hope the disease passes to them

Question 27

What type of hospital is St Bartholomews?

Answer 27

A Town Hospital.

Question 28

What was the medical name for blood letting?

Answer 28

Phlebotomy

Question 29

Who were town hospitals mainly for?

Answer 29

Infirm and Old. Not for the sick as it was feared that would spread illness.

Question 30

Where would you go to let blood in Medieval times?

Answer 30

Barbers

Question 31

What disease did Medieval people believe could be cured by the King's touch?

Answer 31

Scrofula

Question 32

Which treatments and cures would Cunning Folk use?

Answer 32

Blood Letting, Purging, Herbal Remedies.

Question 33

How would a Medieval Physician recommend you cure paralysis?

Answer 33

Boil a fox and then sit in the bath water in the hope their speed transferred to you

Question 34

What was the name of special Herbals prescribed during Medieval times?

Answer 34

Theriaca

Question 35

Were women or men mainly cunning folk?

Answer 35

Women

Question 36

What herb may be prescribed to improve digestion in Medieval times?

Answer 36

Aloe Vera

Question 37

How many herbs were in Theriaca in Medieval times?

Answer 37

70

Question 38

Cunning Folk were usually midwives. What effect did this have towns?

Answer 38

Records suggest that towns which has good midwives had better survival rates for mothers and babies.

Question 39

20th Century: How many times could 20th century microscopes zoom?

Answer 39

1 million x zoom

Question 40

20th Century: how much safer were x-rays by 1900?

Answer 40

2000 times safer

Question 41

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 41

Alexander Fleming

Question 42

When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 42

1928

Question 43

20th century: Who made huge advancements in genetics?

Answer 43

James Watson

Question 44

20th century: How many tonnes of antibiotics are used per year?

Answer 44

300 tonnes

Question 45

20th century: What did people call antibiotics when they were trying to invent it?

Answer 45

Magic bullet

Question 46

20th century: What causes skin cancer?

Answer 46

UV rays from the sun

Question 47

20th century: When did sun creams become available?

Answer 47

1928

Question 48

20th century: How many people died from air pollution in 1956?

Answer 48

4,000

Question 49

20th century: Who introduced ULEZ?

Answer 49

Sadiq Khan, London Mayor

Question 50

20th century: What does ULEZ stand for?

Answer 50

Ultra Low Emission Zone

Question 51

20th century: Before the NHS, how much did treatment for tuberculosis cost?

Answer 51

£1,000

Question 52

20th century: Who campaigned to improve school dinners?

Answer 52

Jamie Oliver

Question 53

20th century: How much did Jamie Oliver find schools were spending on school dinners?

Answer 53

Only 35p