Medieval Medicine

Question 1

Sum of money people gave to the church?

Answer 1

tithe

Question 2

The name of the church in the middle ages?

Answer 2

Cathoiic

Question 3

A time when there was not enough food for people to eat

Answer 3

famine

Question 4

being ill because you did not have enough of the right food

Answer 4

malnutrition

Question 5

Doing things that God would not like was called a ..

Answer 5

sin

Question 6

A disease that caused hair loss, paralysis, loss of fingers and toes and boils on the skin

Answer 6

leprosy

Question 7

The belief that the position of the planets and stars had an impact on peoples’ lives

Answer 7

astrology

Question 8

the scientific study of the movement of planets and the stars

Answer 8

astronomy

Question 9

The person who first wrote about the four humours

Answer 9

Hippocrates of Cos

Question 10

The theory that the body had to have a balance to remain in good health

Answer 10

The Theory of the Four Humours

Question 11

Deciding what is wrong with somebody based upon their symptoms

Answer 11

diagnosing

Question 12

Another word for a doctor or medical practitioner

Answer 12

physician

Question 13

Roman doctor who built upon the ideas of Hippocrates

Answer 13

Galen

Question 14

Idea that the humours needed to be balanced

Answer 14

theory of opposites developed by Galen

Question 15

the idea that disease was called by bad air

Answer 15

miasma

Question 16

body fluid that was checked to see if the humours were out of balance

Answer 16

urine

Question 17

going on a journey to a holy place

Answer 17

pilgrimage

Question 18

service where bread and wine are given to remind people about Jesus

Answer 18

mass

Question 19

disease that was to believed to be cured by the touch of a king

Answer 19

scrofula

Question 20

deliberate bleeding of patients to balance the four humors

Answer 20

phlebotomy

Question 21

deliberately making people sick so that waste food could be let out of the body

Answer 21

purging

Question 22

home made remedy including ginger, cardamon and pepper

Answer 22

theriaca

Question 23

medieval food that was encouraged for the sick because it was moist

Answer 23

blanc mangier

Question 24

A loose set of instructions provided by doctors on how to maintain good health

Answer 24

regimen sanitatis

Question 25

An Arabic scholar

Answer 25

Avicenna

Question 26

Another word for a Public Bath

Answer 26

stewes

Question 27

Very severe runs

Answer 27

dysentery

Question 28

People who mixed herbal remedies, created other remedies and poisons

Answer 28

apothecaries

Question 29

unqualified people who performed small operations

Answer 29

barber surgeons

Question 30

doing a punishment or sacrifice because of sin

Answer 30

penance

Question 31

offering bed and food and comfort to travelers

Answer 31

hospitality