P1 - Medicine Stands Still KEYWORDS

Question 1

Almshouses

Answer 1

Houses paid for and built by someone, often a charity, where poor people/old/sick live when they can’t work.

Question 2

Asclepions

Answer 2

Ancient Greek temple of healing - the equivalent of our hospitals.

Question 3

Autopsy

Answer 3

The opening up of a corpse to try to find out why a person has died.

Question 4

Cauterise

Answer 4

To burn skin/flesh of a wound with a heated instrument / caustic substance to stop bleeding or prevent infection.

Question 5

Cesspits

Answer 5

A pit or hole in the ground for dispose of sewage.

Question 6

Doctrine of Signatures

Answer 6

States that herbs that resemble various parts of the body can be used by herbalists to treat aliments of those parts of the body. (dates from Galen’s time)

Question 7

Ding hills

Answer 7

A heap of waste left to rot.

Question 8

Hippocratic Oath

Answer 8

Path taken by new doctors agreeing to do no harm to patients. Still widely used today by new doctors.

Question 9

Indulgences

Answer 9

If you bought an indulgence from the church, the church would lessen he punishment for your sins so you can get into heaven quicker after you died.

Question 10

Malnourishment

Answer 10

Not enough to eat.

Question 11

Mortality

Answer 11

Death rate which is usually measured per thousands of the populations.

Question 12

Physic Garden

Answer 12

Gardens used solely for growing herbs used in preparing medicines and treating illnesses

Question 13

Purgatory

Answer 13

Christians believed this is where you’d go if you were in between going to Heaven/Hell, like a waiting room till you pay of your sins and can go to Heaven.