Medieval Health Flashcards
When was the medieval period
10th to 15th century
What was a barber surgeon
A dentist who carried out minor operations
When was the Norman conquest
14th October 1066
What is an epidemic
A sudden widespread infectious disease
What is effluent
Liquid waste
What is the hippocratic oath
Oath taken by new doctors to help their patients
What is the doctrine of signatures
States that herbs that look like parts of the body can be used by herbalists to treat those specific body parts
What is a cesspit
A hole in the ground filled with sewage
What is the term used to describe the burning of skin around a wound
Cauterisation
What is the theory of the four humours
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile should be balanced in the body to prevent disease
2 reasons living in a town in the middle ages was unhealthy
Poor and cramped housing, human and animal waste in the streets, no access to clean drinking water
2 ways towns tried to improve public health in the middle ages
Wells for drinking water, fines for not cleaning street, muck rakers, bath houses
How did medieval people keep healthy
Tooth picks, mouth washes, combs, brushes, chewed fennel, bath house, drinking small ale
If you were poor who would treat you
Women
2 ways you could be treated by a barber surgeon
Extraction of teeth, removal of moles, setting of broken bones
