Medieval TKQ notes/flashcards
1
Q
What were medieval doctors called?
A
Physicians
2
Q
Who’s work did Medieval Doctors learn to read from?
A
Galen
3
Q
What were the four humours?
A
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
4
Q
Who funded medieval hospitals?
A
Monasteries and nunneries
5
Q
Who wrote the book The Canon of Medicine?
A
Ibn Sina
6
Q
What is a cesspit?
A
A pit where waste is put.
7
Q
which epidemic hit England in 1538?
A
Black Death
8
Q
Which medical practitioners treated most of the village?
A
wise-women
9
Q
Why was prayer a popular way of treatment?
A
prayer was a way to repent for their sins
10
Q
What was the collection of books produced by the man who created the four humours?
A
Hippocratic corpus
11
Q
Two strands of The plague
A
pneumonic and bubonic
12
Q
Superntural method used for prevention against the pandemic
A
Self flagullation
