Medieval Medicine

Question 1

What were the four humours?

Answer 1

Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Blood, Phlegm

Question 2

What was miasma?

Answer 2

Bad Air

Question 3

How did people prevent miasma?

Answer 3

Birds fly around house, burn herbs, wear herbs around neck

Question 4

Who came up with the theory of the Four Humours?

Answer 4

Hippocrates

Question 5

When was the Black Death?

Answer 5

1348-49

Question 6

How many books did Galen write?

Answer 6

Over 350

Question 7

Who supported Galens ideas?

Answer 7

The Church

Question 8

Why did the Church support Galen?

Answer 8

Only believed in one god and a soul

Question 9

Who would they treat in hospitals?

Answer 9

Old, poor, homeless but not the sick

Question 10

Who performed surgery?

Answer 10

Barber Surgery

Question 11

Why were dissections not allowed?

Answer 11

Everyone believed Galen and it was against Church law

Question 12

How many beds on average were in a hospital?

Answer 12

5

Question 13

What is an apothecary?

Answer 13

Made herbal hermedies

Question 14

What was a popular herbal remedy?

Answer 14

Onion and garlic or honey

Question 15

How did they rebalance the four humours?

Answer 15

Bleeding and purging

Question 16

What was Regimen sanitatis?

Answer 16

Instructions to help treat the sick, written by physicians for their rich patients

Question 17

What is a pomander?

Answer 17

A ball for sweet smelling herbs

Question 18

How long was the quarantine for the Black Death?

Answer 18

40 Days

Question 19

What did governments spend taxes on?

Answer 19

War, not Public Health

Question 20

What did King Edward III order during the Black Death?

Answer 20

Streets to be cleaned

Question 21

Why was there limited progress in medieval medicine?

Answer 21

Church
Respect for Galen
Respect for Tradition
Church control of education

Question 22

How many physicians were there in medieval England?

Answer 22

100

Question 23

How long did it take to train to be a physician?

Answer 23

7 years