Medieval medicine Flashcards
What does prehistoric mean?
Before recorded history
What is trepanning?
Cutting a hole in someone’s head, said to release evil/bad spirits.
What is a shaman?
A witch doctor/ medicine man
What is mummification
Egyptian burial process
What is clinical observation?
Observing a patient or specimen from a patient In healthcare.
What are the four humours
Hippocrates believed the body was made up of four things: bloood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm.
what is a barber surgeon?
Doctors weren’t regarded as important so the doctors would also cut your hair,
What is miasma
Bad air
When was medical medicine (time period)?
Roughly spanned from the 5th to the 15th century
What where some treatments in medieval medicine/ways if healing.
Mixtures of herb remedies, bleeding and purging and supernatural ideas,
Most doctors still believed the Greek theories from galen. TRUE OR FALSE? And why?
True, most doctors were not specially trained or even trained at all so they believed in Greek ideas and galen.
Why did doctors not understand medicine and how the body works during this time?
Human dissections where banned so doctors didn’t understand how bodies work.
What was the main cause doctors believed when people got sick and why they got sick?
During this time the church was a big influence so people believed that people became ill because god wanted them to die or suffer from sins.
What did doctors blame everything on other than sins etc…?
Demons, bad smells (miasma), witchcraft, astrology, charms and luck.
When was the Black Death? (In England)
1348-1352
Roughly how many people did the Black Death kill in Europe?
Roughly 20 million
What where the main causes of the black death?
Coughing out germs, Fleas and rats.
What did people believe was the cause of the Black Death?
There were many explanations based religion. Astrology and general knowledge. Most people believed the causes where unholy behaviour, bad smells (miasma)
How did people prevent or cure the Black Death?
People cleaned the streets, burned rubbish, prayer.
