Medieval Quiz Flashcards
1
Q
What caused people to be healthy?
A
Programme for Health Monasteries had fresh running water, 'lavers' (wash rooms), flush 'reredorters' (latrines) with running sewers, compulsory bath 4 times a year Towns had bath houses laws requiring people to keep the streets clean passed Hospitals were built since Roman times
2
Q
Who provided medical care?
A
Galen
Monks
Nuns
Priests
3
Q
What caused diagnosis and treatment to change?
A
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4
Q
What caused diagnosis and treatment to remain the same
A
Church forbade the dissection of human bodies ad rejected new ideas
5
Q
How far did new ideas and treatments (aka change) affect the majority of the population?
A
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6
Q
What ideas did people have about the causes of illness
A
punishment from God four humours demons, sin, bad smells, astrology and the stars, stagnant water, the Jewish people
7
Q
What ideas did people have about the treatment of illness
A
doctors carried with them a vademecum (diagnoses and a urine chart) Clinical observation By carrying something nice-smelling bleeding, applying leeches, or causing purging or vomiting in their patients natural healing herbs and substances flagellated Trephining alchohol antiseptic anaesthetics
8
Q
Summarise Medieval progress
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9
Q
What caused people to be unhealthy?
A
Garbage and human waste was thrown into the streets. Houses were made of wood, mud and dung.
Rats, lice and fleas flourished in the rushes strewn over the clay floors of people’s houses (often changed only once a year).
10
Q
Time
A
476 AD – 1500
