Medicine Through Time Flashcards
What were the causes of disease
1200-1500
Church
Astrology
4 Humours
Miasma
Treatment
1200-1500
Prayer
Humoural treatments
Fasting
Bathing
Prevention
1200-1500
Pray!
Basic hygiene
Carry posy 💐
Who cares for the sick ?
Physician
Apothecary
Surgeon
When was the Black Death ?
1348 -50
What is the bubonic plague ?
Spread by fleas on rats
What’s the pneumonic plague ?
Spread by coughing
Who is Hippocrates ?
Greek physician came up with the 4 Humours
Who is Galen ?
Roman physician who wrote about the basis of medical understanding
Physician?
University educated who practices medicine
Apothecary?
Mixed herbal remedies
When was the Renaissance ?
1500-1700
What’s the causes in 1500-1700
4 humours
Miasma
Church had less control
Treatments in the renaissance period?
Transference
Herbal remedies
Chemical cures
Prevention in the renaissance?
Cleanliness
Moderation
Reduce miasma
When was the great plague?
1665
How many people died in the great plague ?
65,000