Medival

Question 1

John Arderne

Answer 1

St- surgeon with 50% success with anus surgery
- worked in 100 year war and developed pain killing ointment of opium , henbane and opium which reduced cauterisation

Lt- wrote “a practice of surgery” in 1350 which challenged Galen and Hippocrates safer techniques

Question 2

Mayor of Coventry

Answer 2

-1421 Mayor proclaimed every man clean street in front of houser or a 12 penny fine
-Waste collections sold to farmers
-Waste disposal locations and dunghills
-all toilets and waste banned from rivers to allow clean water

Question 3

Ibn al-Nafis

Answer 3

St- Great anatomical discovery about the pulmonary circulation
-Discovered how blood circulated through the heart which disproved Galens theory on types of blood

Lt- influenced William Harvey who finally discovered the complete circulatory system in the 17th century

Question 4

Rhazes

Answer 4

St - head Docter in Baghdad hospital
- 5 hospitals in Baghdad in 1000 Ad
- considered allergies and noticed fevers were a body’s natural healing method

Lt- wrote “el hawi “
A 200 further medical works with detailed descriptions of diseases gained through observation

Question 5

Avicenna

Answer 5

St- anaesthetics patients with cannabis and opium
- used mercury and alchol as antiseptics
- rules of hygiene

Lt- wrote “ cannon of medicine “ a combination of his own ideas combined with galen and Hippocrates
- his work translated into Latin and used widely in the west
- “cannon of medicine “ was used as the medicine textbook into the 17th century