Treatments for disease

Question 1

Religion + superstition - Medieval

Answer 1

• Herbal treatments

- believed that Disease was Gods punishment

Question 2

Religion + superstition - Early Modern

Answer 2

• Nicolas Culpepper - “The complete herbal”

- The great plague - miasthma + evil spirits

Question 3

Religion + superstition - 19th century

Answer 3

• People objected an anesthetics

- Still used 4 humours theory

Question 4

Religion + superstition - 20th century

Answer 4

-Alternative medicine - controversies like thalidomide turned people away

Question 5

Chance - Medieval

Answer 5

• Some herbal remedies worked

- Black death - popping buboes to release evil spirits released some of the infection

Question 6

Chance - Early Modern

Answer 6

-Edward Jenner - overheard milkmaids

Question 7

Chance - 19th century

Answer 7

-Development of vaccines - Pasteur - Chicken cholera

Question 8

Chance - 20th century

Answer 8

-Alexander Fleming and antibiotics

Question 9

Individuals - Medieval

Answer 9

• Hippocrates - 4 humours

- Avicenna - “canon of medicine”

Question 10

Individuals - Early Modern

Answer 10

• Edward Jenner - cow pox

- Thomas Sydenham - observation of symptoms

Question 11

Individuals - 19th century

Answer 11

• Robert Koch - linked specific germs to diseases

- Louis Pasteur - Link between germs and disease

Question 12

Individuals - 20th century

Answer 12

• Alexander Fleming - Penicillin

- Crick and Watson - discovered DNA