medieval england Flashcards
who treated the sick
baber surgeons in town(bloodletting and minor operations), wise women in villages (herbal remedies), monks in monasteries, (herbs, prayer and rest), trained doctors (very expensive ,used ideas of hippocrates and galen., apothecaries (prepared and sold treatment to the sick)
what were the different methods used to treat illnesses
clinical observation(pulse and urine)
what was medieval medicine a time of
continuety because of the church
how did the church hinder progress in respect to attitudes
it controlled everything, attitudes: people should respect tradition and ancient ideas, resistant to change, conservatism.
how dod the church hinder progress in respect to communication
no printing press, most poeple where illiterate and if an idea didnt co-encide with the churches treaches it wasnt printed.
how did the church hinder progress in respect to individuals
the church supported the work of anciebt doctors - Hippocrates and Galen
how did the church hinder progress in respect to education
doctors where trained by book learning
dissection was limited
experiments where discouraged
what was the goverments/ onarchs role to medicine
local government had little power tyo improve health and the kings had no duty to take action
ideas of causes
God and sin - taught by the church, bible stories e.g leprosy was gods punishment
lack of scientific knowledge so couldnt really question gthe church
treatments
prayes, mass, pilgrameges, kings touch, physicians would check star charts
ideas of preventions
praye and avoiding sin, ygeine was linked to godliness - this helped.
astrology
the church resisted it, but the church accepted it after the black death. hippocrates thought the planets and starts thought it would help.
what was the fout humours theory
unbalanced humours cause desease - blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile - based on hippocrates and galen - trained doctors based on study not experiments - there writings where hugely detailed so hard to challange
four humours treatment
purging - emetics(vomit pills), laxatives
bloodletting( veins, leaches)
opposites theory - e.g phlegm is a cold and wet humour patients would be given a hot chilly
herbal remedies
