medieval surgery Flashcards
define surgery
operations undertaken to alter the structure of the body for medical reasons
what was a c-section in medieval times?
it was a last resort only given if a mother is dying and the only pain rleife was herbs or prayer. All mothers were told to profess their sins when in labour due to the high risk of death
what was cataract surgery
was when a needle was put through he eye and back to remove cataracts and was sometimes successful but had a high risk of destroying the eye
how were hemeroids treated in medival times
a hot iron was put up the anus to burn off hemeroids
what was trepanning
when holes were drilled into people’s heads to relive the presure in the brain, expell deamons, cure epilepsy or migrains as well as mental illnesses or disorders
what was abarbour surgeon in the middle ages?
they were not very well trained people who could cut hair or do surgeries they were trained through apprentiships and somtimes used books to help with surgery
what was a battlefeild srugon
they were better traind than battle feild sergons they learned on the battlefeild or from other surgons. they only operated when there was no other choice.
what were some middle ages sergories
bloodletting amputations teppaning cateracts c-section blood letting and hemorrhoids
how did medival surgons try to stop the problem of pain
little could be done to stop the pain they sent the patient to sleep with natural substances and alcohol
how did sergons deal with the problem of infection and bleeding
they would cauterise wounds with a heated iron this could be very painful and was sometimes fatal
who was jhon ardenne
he was amedival english srugon that sued a mixture of hemlock and heobane as a pain killing ointment that also help healing and stopped the need for cautersieation
he had a 50% servival rate on his surgories
he specalised in removing growths he worked in the 100 year war and helped the poor (treated them for free) wrote the practice of surgorey
who were hugh and theodoric of lucca
they critisozed the common view that puss was need for wound wound to heal and they washed wounds with wine wich was antiseptic but their ideas did not catch on beacuse De Chauliac opposed them
they questioned hippocroties and galen and encoraged obervation
how did army sergory improve?
new tools like the arrow cup were develpoed and amuals help to spred knowledge like wound man
and from 1300s dissection was allowed in medical schools for training perposes but if a surgon found somthing that proved galen wrong they were told this was not true and insead they had done is dissection wrong
who was abucalsis
wrote very internationally popular encyclopedia of mediceine that was sued for 500 years
he described over 300 desiseasess amd treatments and the use of 200 surgical instruments some of wich he developed
who was john brodmore
he was a metal worker and served as an appprentice sergon and helped remove an arrow from henery v’s head and invented arrow cup to do so
