Medieval medicine Flashcards
1
Q
What did people believe cause diseases?
A
- God
-Miasma
-Four humours
-Astrology
2
Q
What was the main belief about God and causes?
A
God was punishing them for there sins or was testing there faith
3
Q
What were the four humours and how did they cause diseases?
A
-Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
- An imbalance in the four humours caused diseases
4
Q
How would planets cause diseases?
A
The alignment of planets and stars
5
Q
What was the theory of opposites?
A
It aimed to balance the humours by giving the patient the ‘opposite’ of their symptoms.
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