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Medieval medicine In England Flashcards

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What was the most influential organisation in Medieval Europe

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The church

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The church encouraged people to believe in traditional ideas and not ask questions . Why do you think this was ?

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To make sure nobody questioned God .
So they don’t get “punished” by God
As the ideas they had were approved by the church.

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How did monasteries help keep knowledge safe

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Kept the books in libraries.

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Why didn’t kings improve medicine in medieval times?

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They believed it wasn’t their job to be doing that and they would save the money for if they ever went to war .

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Which ancient civilisations had lots of good ideas about medicine .

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The Greeks (Hippocrates and Galen)

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How did medical ideas get to Britain ?

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People would copy up the books , often monks would copy them down and then the books would be spread around the world.

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Why did the medical ideas stay important in Britain .

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As there was lots of sickness at the time and also the church controlled what ideas people would be following .

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Which of Hippocrates ideas were important in the Middle Ages

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The theory of four humours

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Which of Galen’s ideas were important in the Middle Ages

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The theory of opposites

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Name the four humours

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Black bile
Yellow bile
blood
Phlegm

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What had to happen to the four humours to cause disease

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An imbalance

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Give 2 reasons people thought God sent diseases

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To punish people
God was angry at them

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Name 2 other things ( that wasn’t about God )people believed caused disease

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Miasma
Having imbalanced humours

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What was the Articella

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The book containing Galen and Hippocrates ideas

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What was bleeding

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Where you’d draw blood and cut yourself to let blood out

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What was purging

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Patients were given emetics (to make them vomit) or laxatives (to empty the bowels)

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Why were people purged or bled

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To balance the humours in their body

18
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What was treatment by opposites

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If you had a cold - make yourself hot by eating chillies
If you had a fever - cool yourself down by eating cucumber

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How did people try and please god in the middle ages

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Going on pilgrimages
Going to church
praying a lot

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What was a urine chart used for

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The colour, smell and sometimes taste of a patient’s urine were used to determine the imbalance in their humours and suggest a treatment.

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What was the regimen Sanitatis

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Advice of keeping people clean and exercised .

22
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What was a stewe

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Public baths

23
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How would people prevent bad smells in the middle ages

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Carrying bags or herbs or flowers and would breathe in the smell when it got smelly .

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What public health steps were taken during the middle ages

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Bathing / cleaning youself became more popular .
Council would occasionally clean up the streets

25
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What was the name of the advice given people to live a healthy lifestyle

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Regime Sanitatis

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What was the main job of an apothercary

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Made herbal remedies

27
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Who ran hospitals in the middle ages

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Monks and Nuns

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How did hospitals in the Middle Ages take care of people

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Gave them :
Shelter
Food
A bed
Herbal remedies
Prayed for them

29
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When was the Black Death

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1346

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What was the impact of the black death

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Killed around just under half of Europe’s population
Would give you buboes
Killed majority of people

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What ideas did people have about the cause of the black death

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It was airborne and would catch if from miasma - bad air .

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How did people treat / prevent the black death ?

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Wore crow masks
Carried herbs and flowers to not breath in Miasma
Council tried to clean up the streets .
Wouldn’t treat you in a hospital becuase it was contagious

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