Medieval medicine In England Flashcards
What was the most influential organisation in Medieval Europe
The church
The church encouraged people to believe in traditional ideas and not ask questions . Why do you think this was ?
To make sure nobody questioned God .
So they don’t get “punished” by God
As the ideas they had were approved by the church.
How did monasteries help keep knowledge safe
Kept the books in libraries.
Why didn’t kings improve medicine in medieval times?
They believed it wasn’t their job to be doing that and they would save the money for if they ever went to war .
Which ancient civilisations had lots of good ideas about medicine .
The Greeks (Hippocrates and Galen)
How did medical ideas get to Britain ?
People would copy up the books , often monks would copy them down and then the books would be spread around the world.
Why did the medical ideas stay important in Britain .
As there was lots of sickness at the time and also the church controlled what ideas people would be following .
Which of Hippocrates ideas were important in the Middle Ages
The theory of four humours
Which of Galen’s ideas were important in the Middle Ages
The theory of opposites
Name the four humours
Black bile
Yellow bile
blood
Phlegm
What had to happen to the four humours to cause disease
An imbalance
Give 2 reasons people thought God sent diseases
To punish people
God was angry at them
Name 2 other things ( that wasn’t about God )people believed caused disease
Miasma
Having imbalanced humours
What was the Articella
The book containing Galen and Hippocrates ideas
What was bleeding
Where you’d draw blood and cut yourself to let blood out
What was purging
Patients were given emetics (to make them vomit) or laxatives (to empty the bowels)
Why were people purged or bled
To balance the humours in their body
What was treatment by opposites
If you had a cold - make yourself hot by eating chillies
If you had a fever - cool yourself down by eating cucumber
How did people try and please god in the middle ages
Going on pilgrimages
Going to church
praying a lot
What was a urine chart used for
The colour, smell and sometimes taste of a patient’s urine were used to determine the imbalance in their humours and suggest a treatment.
What was the regimen Sanitatis
Advice of keeping people clean and exercised .
What was a stewe
Public baths
How would people prevent bad smells in the middle ages
Carrying bags or herbs or flowers and would breathe in the smell when it got smelly .
What public health steps were taken during the middle ages
Bathing / cleaning youself became more popular .
Council would occasionally clean up the streets
