medieval medicine Flashcards
What were the ideas of causes of disease?
- gods punishment
- four humours
- astrology
- miasma
what are the four humours?
- black bile
- blood
- phlegm
- yellow bile
Who created the theory of the four humours?
hippocrates
When was the black death?
1348-49
What percentage of the population died in the black death?
40%
What are the symptoms of the bubonic plague?
- buboes in armpits and groin
- blisters appear all over the body
- high fever
- severe headaches
What were some religious prevention methods for the black death?
- services in church once a day to pray for God’s forgiveness
- pilgrimages
- flagellants
What were prevention methods of the black death to do with miasma?
- carried sweet smelling herbs
- ringing bells to keep air moving
What were some treatments from the black death?
- putting holy charms round the necks of sufferers
- cutting buboes to let pus out
- bleeding and purging to balance humours
- treatment by opposites
Who invented the forceps?
John Bradmore
What did they use as anaesthetics?
opium or hemlock
What factors caused there to be little development in medicine?
- the church
- government
- individuals
- education
- respect for tradition
How did the church cause there to be little development in medicine?
- the church had major influence on people’s ideas on what caused disease
- the pope said that if anyone challenged the bible they’d be sent to hell
- the church supported the ideas of Galen
How did education cause there to be little development in medicine?
- the church controlled education including how physicians trained at university- learned off ideas of Galen and Hippocrates
- they were discouraged to experiment
How did individuals cause there to be little development in medicine?
- physicians only studied off Galen and the Hippocrates
- there seemed to be evidence to prove their ideas were correct
- their ideas seemed logical and reassuring if you were sick
