middle ages

Question 1

What are the supernatural ideas for causes of diseases?

Answer 1

The church
Astrology

Question 2

What did the church teach about disease?

Answer 2

God gave illness for punishment for sins

Question 3

How did astrology cause disease

Answer 3

When the stars were out of line illness happened

Question 4

What were natural ideas for cause of disease

Answer 4

Theory of four humours
Theory of opposites
Miasma

Question 5

What was the theory of four humours

Answer 5

Idea that the body had 4 liquids
Black bile yellow bile blood and phlegm
if they were out of balance the body would try and get rid of it

Question 6

Who thought of the 4 humours

Answer 6

hippocrates

Question 7

What was the theory of opposites

Answer 7

Development of the 4 humours
added more treatments
e.g cucumbers if too hot

Question 8

Who thought of the theory of opposite

Answer 8

Galen

Question 9

Why did the church support galen and hippocrates ideas

Answer 9

It agreed with the bible

Question 10

What was miasma

Answer 10

Bad smells and air caused disease

Question 11

What were supernatural treatments or preventions for disease

Answer 11

religious
astrology
scrofula

Question 12

What were religious treatments and preventions

Answer 12

pray to forgive their sins
light a candle the length of your illness
pilgrimage
flagellation
not sinning

Question 13

What was scrofula

Answer 13

a specific disease cured by the kings touch

Question 14

What were treatments for the 4 humours

Answer 14

Blood-letting
Purging
Warm baths
Foods

Question 15

Whats blood-letting

Answer 15

When physicians thought patients had to much blood it would be drained by leeches or cutting

Question 16

How was warm baths a prevention or treatment

Answer 16

help dissolve humour blockages

Question 17

Whats another natural treatment or prevention

Answer 17

herbal remedies

Question 18

what were the carers in the middle ages

Answer 18

physicians
apothercaries
women in the home
barber surgeons
hospitals

Question 19

What were physicians

Answer 19

Docotors trained in universities
read galen and hippocrates

Question 20

what were apthecaries

Answer 20

mix potions and herbs to create medicines

Question 21

what were barber surgeons

Answer 21

not well qualified
cut hair
performed small surgeries such as pulling teeth and blood-letting

Question 22

What were hospitals

Answer 22

mostly looked after travellers then the sick
owned by the church run by monks and nuns
a place to rest and recover
place to die in comfort

Question 23

Why was book learning significant

Answer 23

most people couldnt read so if you could it was a sign of intelligence
a good doctor was someone who read galen and hippocrates

Question 24

How was the public health poor

Answer 24

most worked on farms-weakened their bodies
nutrition was poor-famine
crowded streets had no drainage

Question 25

When did the black death happen and where

Answer 25

1348
started in china travelled through europe along trade routes

Question 26

What were the symptoms

Answer 26

fever
chest pains
trouble breathing
coughing blood
black buboes

Question 27

what were religious and supernatural causes

Answer 27

god had sent the disease as a punishment for sins
1345 planets were in unusual positions meaning something bad could happen

Question 28

what were natural causes

Answer 28

miasma

Question 29

what were supernatural treatments

Answer 29

confess sins
ask god for forgiveness

Question 30

what were natural treatments

Answer 30

bleeding and purging-made it worse
strong smelling herbs
burst buboes

Question 31

what were supernatural preventions

Answer 31

pray to god
go on pilgrimages
self flagellation-show god your sorry

Question 32

what were natural preventions

Answer 32

keep flowers close to your nose
avoid bathing-opens pores
escape bad air

Question 33

what were government actions

Answer 33

quarantine laws-stopped people moving around
newcomers had to quarantine for 40 days
quarantine houses for victims
religious ceromonies banned