Medival Medicine 📚

Question 1

Who did you go to if you were ill in medieval Britain?

Answer 1

.barber surgeons
.wise men/woman
.herbalists
.trained doctors

Question 2

What did barber surgeons do?

Answer 2

.bloodletting
.minor surgery

Question 3

What did wise men and woman do?

Answer 3

.gave first aid
.herbal remedies
.supernatural cures based in tradition

Question 4

What did herbalists do?

Answer 4

.herbal treatments

Question 5

What did trained doctors do.

Answer 5

.teated using hippocratic and galenic methods from British textbooks (Gilbert eagles compendium medicine)
.using Islamic texts (avicennas canon if medicine)

Question 6

What did doctors do?

Answer 6

.charged fee in services
.studied for at least 7 years in university

Question 7

What natural ways did doctor use for treatment?

Answer 7

.clinical observation
.checkimg pulse and urine
.four humours

Question 8

What supernatural ways did doctors use for treatment?

Answer 8

.position of the stars
.recommended charms and prayers

Question 9

What are the four humours?

Answer 9

.blood
.phlegm
.black bile
.yellow bile

Question 10

What did doctors believe made you ill?

Answer 10

If any of the four humours were out of balance

Question 11

How did Christianity affect medical medicine.

Answer 11

.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

Question 12

Who were hospitals funded by?

Answer 12

.church
.wealthy patron

Question 13

What was taught in universities?

Answer 13

Medical ideas of the Ancient Greek and romans

Question 14

What was taught in universities?

Answer 14

Medical ideas of the Ancient Greek and romans

Question 15

What is the medical institution that controlled all medical knowledge?

Answer 15

Church

Question 16

Which Greek scientist formed the theory of the four humours to diagnose and treat illness?

Answer 16

Hippocrates

Question 17

What happened to roger bacon when he suggested that existing medical knowledge could be improved upon?

Answer 17

Arrested and imprisoned

Question 18

What did Alexander Fleming discover when he returned from the holiday?

Answer 18

Penicillin

Question 19

What killer disease did Edward Jenner use cow pox to vaccinate against?

Answer 19

Small pox

Question 20

What was Louis pausteurs theory for explains the cause of disease called?

Answer 20

Germ theory

Question 21

What three disease was Robert Koch able to indemnify under the microscope?

Answer 21

Anthrax,cholera,tuberculosis

Question 22

What major event led to the development of pencilin into the first mass produced antibiotic?

Answer 22

Second world war

Question 23

What did the church think was the best form of treatment for medieval people who became sick?

Answer 23

Praying