theme: religion

Question 1

Medicine Stands Still

Answer 1

• people were fed, given a bath and prayed for in a hospital adjoining a monastery. Also had access to herbs, a clean, serene room and a place to rest- linked to idea of Christian duty
• Roger Bacon was put in prison in the 1200s/1277
• pre 1348 education provider (until the plague) led to flagellants - not scientific or helpful

Question 2

The Beginnings Of Change

Answer 2

• 1536- monestaries were shut in the English Reformation- led to less care for the poor and reduced public health
• Religious people were critical of new discoveries by Vesalius, Harvey and Syndenham- held back medical progress as their ideas went against Galen, slowing mediacl progress as it was not as widespread.
• Edward Jenner’s ideas were protested against by the church, as cows were lesser in the Great Chain of Being so should not be involved in health

Question 3

A Revolution In Medicine

Answer 3

• religious believers went against painkillers used for birth with the belief that painful pregnancy was a punishment from God for the Fall
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Question 4

Modern Medicine

Answer 4

• 1865- Salvation Army helped the sick

Question 5

Modern Medicine

Answer 5

• as far as I am aware, literally nothing

Question 6

first hospital

Answer 6

St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1123
originally specialised in helping poor pregnant women