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Medieval Towns/Countryside health Flashcards

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What is Small beer?

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A weak form of beer

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What is a Cesspit?

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A pit to dispose waste or sewage

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What is a midden?

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A hole for household and animal waste

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What does contaminated mean?

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Polluted or poisoned

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Who would clean the streets?

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A Drover

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Who would empty the cesspits?

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A gongfermer

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What was ergotism?

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A disease which grows on rye and poisens consumers

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What is wattle and daub?

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A material used in building walls. Consisting of sticks and twigs covered in mud.

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What is pottage?

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Soup/stew

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What is the definition of harvest?

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The process of gathering crops

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What is a famine?

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Extreme scarcity of food resulting in starvation

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What was the disease that killed 1/3 of europe called?

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The Black Death

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What were the people at the bottom of the hierarchy called?

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Peasants

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What is a conduit?

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A stream of water

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What is dysentry?

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Infection of the intestines by contact with human faeces

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Why was water contaminated?

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Gongfermers would chuck waste in the water and people would bathe in it

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How many types of the black death were there?

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3

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How long did the bubonic form of the plague take to kill a patient?

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3-4 days

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How long did the pneumonic form take to kill a person?

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2 days

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How long did the septicemic form take to kill a patient?

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About 4 days

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What were the 3 forms of black death?

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Bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic

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What were the four humours?

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Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

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Who created the four humours idea?

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Romans

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What was miasma?

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Bad air/smells

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Did kings/governments do anything for public health?

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No, they did not believe it was their role

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What caused the black death to spread so fast?

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Compact towns, Travel, trade and lack of science and technology

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Where were animals stored?

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At night animals were stored in houses

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Were diets varied?

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Yes, on a year of a good harvest

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What were the symptoms of ergostism?

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Painful spots and a burning sensation all over

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When was the great famine in the 14th century?

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1315-1322

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How many people were killed by the 14th century famine?

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10% of people

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