Medival Medicine 📚 Flashcards
Who did you go to if you were ill in medieval Britain?
.barber surgeons
.wise men/woman
.herbalists
.trained doctors
What did barber surgeons do?
.bloodletting
.minor surgery
What did wise men and woman do?
.gave first aid
.herbal remedies
.supernatural cures based in tradition
What did herbalists do?
.herbal treatments
What did trained doctors do.
.teated using hippocratic and galenic methods from British textbooks (Gilbert eagles compendium medicine)
.using Islamic texts (avicennas canon if medicine)
What did doctors do?
.charged fee in services
.studied for at least 7 years in university
What natural ways did doctor use for treatment?
.clinical observation
.checkimg pulse and urine
.four humours
What supernatural ways did doctors use for treatment?
.position of the stars
.recommended charms and prayers
What are the four humours?
.blood
.phlegm
.black bile
.yellow bile
What did doctors believe made you ill?
If any of the four humours were out of balance
How did Christianity affect medical medicine.
.believed it was good to look after the sick
.god sent illness as a punishment thus curing was going against god
.care not cure
.prayers more important that drugs
Who were hospitals funded by?
.church
.wealthy patron
What was taught in universities?
Medical ideas of the Ancient Greek and romans
What was taught in universities?
Medical ideas of the Ancient Greek and romans
What is the medical institution that controlled all medical knowledge?
Church
Which Greek scientist formed the theory of the four humours to diagnose and treat illness?
Hippocrates
What happened to roger bacon when he suggested that existing medical knowledge could be improved upon?
Arrested and imprisoned
What did Alexander Fleming discover when he returned from the holiday?
Penicillin
What killer disease did Edward Jenner use cow pox to vaccinate against?
Small pox
What was Louis pausteurs theory for explains the cause of disease called?
Germ theory
What three disease was Robert Koch able to indemnify under the microscope?
Anthrax,cholera,tuberculosis
What major event led to the development of pencilin into the first mass produced antibiotic?
Second world war
What did the church think was the best form of treatment for medieval people who became sick?
Praying
