medieval era

Question 1

what 5 things did people believe caused illness
- specifically the black death

Answer 1

god’s punishment, imbalance of 4 humours (black and yellow bile, blood, phlegm), the stars/ astronomy, miasma, blaming minority groups like Jews

Question 2

what did apothecaries do

Answer 2

sold drugs and medicines

Question 3

what public health measures were taken

Answer 3

none human waste was littered onto the streets

Question 4

how did the plague spread
how did the rats come

Answer 4

flea bits rat the bacteria passing to humans once they were bitten too
trading ships

Question 5

symptoms of plague

Answer 5

exhaution, headache, high temp, coughing blood

Question 6

how did they try to contain the disease from the ports

Answer 6

had 40 days of quarantine

Question 7

when ws the black death

Answer 7

1348

Question 8

who created theory of opposites

Answer 8

Galen

Question 9

how did galen learn about human anatomy why did the church listen to his ideas

Answer 9

dissected aniamls like pigs leading him to get many things wrong
aligned with the design theory (that God designed humans)