Medieval Healers

Question 1

how many male physicians were there?

Answer 1

100

Question 2

how long did physicans train at medical school for?

Answer 2

7-10 years

Question 3

what ideas were physicans taught?

Answer 3

galen and hippocrates ideas

Question 4

what were physicians banned from doing in training?

Answer 4

dissection

Question 5

what did physicians advise their patients?

Answer 5

to get treatment from other healers

Question 6

were a physician’s services cheap or expensive?

Answer 6

expensive

Question 7

apothecaries were t- but had no m- e-

Answer 7

were trained but had no medical experience

Question 8

what did apothecaries do for physicians?

Answer 8

mix ingredients to make medicine

Question 9

were apothecaries cheaper or more expensive than physicians?

Answer 9

cheaper

Question 10

what else could apothecaries provide?

Answer 10

charms and amulets

Question 11

apothecaries were considered as s- as physicians

Answer 11

skilled as physicians

Question 12

what type of surgeries did barber surgeons perform?

Answer 12

small

Question 13

name 4 procedures barber surgeons could carry out

Answer 13

could pull teeth, lance boils, let blood and remove tumours

Question 14

give 2 disadvantages of barber surgeons

Answer 14

did not use anaesthetic or antiseptic
had a low success rate

Question 15

barber surgeons were not r- by ph-

Answer 15

not respected by physicians

Question 16

barber surgeons had cheap or expensive surgery?

Answer 16

cheapest

Question 17

what were wise women not allowed to do or become?

Answer 17

they couldn’t be educated and become a physician

Question 18

what did townspeople use wise women for?

Answer 18

to deliver babies and for advice

Question 19

what did wise women use?

Answer 19

herbal remedies and spells

Question 20

were wise women cheap or expensive?

Answer 20

cheap

Question 21

what was the first hospital?

Answer 21

St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Question 22

when did the first hospital open?

Answer 22

1123

Question 23

who ran hospitals?

Answer 23

monks

Question 24

why did hospitals not care for the sick?

Answer 24

they didn’t want infection to spread

Question 25

who opened more hospitals in the middle ages later?

Answer 25

guilds