Treatment

Question 1

How did balancing thr 4 humours help cure illness?

Answer 1

Bad humours removed through bleeding, purging or taking laxatives to make patient vomit or have diahorrea to balance humours, warm bath to dissolve humour blockages

Question 2

Name 4 different treatment categories?

Answer 2

Religious remedies
Balancing the four humours
Supernatural treatments
Other remedies

Question 3

What were some religious remedies?

Answer 3

-Healing prayers and spells
-Praying for a special mass to be said for you
-Pilgrimage
-Not allowed to seek treatment ad God sent illness to purge the soul

Question 4

Name some supernatural treatments?

Answer 4

-star charts and horoscope read to assign remedy
-amulets (good luck charms) and charms provided supernatural treatment

Question 5

What were some other remedies?

Answer 5

• Fasting (no food)
• Herbal remedies
  -Wine vinger and honey to clean wound
• Theriac remedy made from 70 ingredients to treat poison
• Minor surgery
• Theory of opposites

Question 6

What was the role of physicians?

Answer 6

-Recommended a treatment course
-Rarely treated patients themselves (diagnose illness and recommend treatment)
-Medical degree took 7-10 years to complete
-Looked at urine the consulted astrological charts, then created a treatment course
-Learned the works of Galen

Question 7

Who were apothecaries?

Answer 7

-Mixed herbal remedies
-Studied herbal manuals
-Good knowledge from own experience or family members (about herbs)
-Provided charms to cure disease

Question 8

What was the role of barber surgeons?

Answer 8

-Least qualified medical professionals
-Pull teeth put and blood letting
-Skilled surgeon could set a broken limb, remove cataracts or arrows

Question 9

How did Barber surgeons advertise?

Answer 9

Advertised treatment by putting bowls of blood in window and a sign of a bloody, bandaged arm