Medieval Medicine Flashcards
Who created the Theory of The 4 Humours?
Hippocrates.
Who was Claudius Galen?
Created the Theory of Opposites.
What were cupping and leeching for?
Bloodletting.
What would nuns provide in a church to the sick?
Care, not cures.
What happened in 1348?
The plague hit England.
What was ‘Miasma’?
Bad smells in the air, bad air.
Name at least three symptoms of the Black Death.
Three (or more) of these:
Buboes, spasms, fever, vomiting, blood under the skin, abdominal pain and weakness
What was a Physician?
An educated doctor.
What was an Apothecary?
A medieval pharmacist.
What did a Barber Surgeon do?
Would amputate limbs, help with bloodletting, cut hair.
What was a Barber Surgeon?
Untrained surgeon, barber.
What was an Elf Shot?
The belief in elves shooting you with arrows, causing disease.
What did people believe God would do if you offended him?
He would make you ill.
How would people get rid of buboes?
A dead, dry animal, such as a toad or chicken, being attached to the buboe by its bum, which would suck the pus from the buboe.
Describe the theory of opposites.
If you were hot, you would eat something cold, like a cucumber. If you were cold you would eat something hot, like a hot pepper.
What were the two main types of cures?
Natural and supernatural.
Where did Galen work?
Rome.
Where were both Hippocrates and Galen born?
Greece.
Out of Hippocrates and Galen, who’s ideas stuck around the longest?
Galen’s’ did, for 1500 years.
Who dissected a pig to learn more about anatomy?
Galen.
What caused the plague?
Fleas picking up bacteria, giving that to rats who gave them to humans who spread them.
What were the two main types of plague called?
Bubonic and pneumonic.
Where did the plague come from?
Asia.
