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WEEK 9 (Medieval Medicine) Flashcards

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Describe Early Medieval Medical Texts

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  • Much simpler and poorer compilations
  • Mainly lists of drugs
  • Mainly in Latin
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Describe medicine during the Dark ages

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  • Monks played a key role
  • Lay doctors seen especially in Italy and Gaul
  • Jews replaced Greeks as the court of physicians
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Towards the end of “Dark Ages” ________________ became increasingly important as centers of learning and medical learning

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Cathedral schools

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What was mainly found in the writings of the monks?

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  • Translations
  • Practical writings maintaining infirmaries and herb gardens
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The Library of the cloister of St Gall in Switzerland in the 9th century contains how many Medical books?

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6 Medical books

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Describe Early christianity’s influence on medicine

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Emphasis on the interest in the soul as opposed to concern for bodily ills

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What is Christianity’s original theory of disease?

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  • Punishment for sins
  • Possession by the evil
  • Result of witchcraft
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What is Christianity’s original therapeutic methods?

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  • Prayer
  • Repentance
  • Assistance of saints
  • Every cure is a miracle
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What did monk doctors such as Hrabanus Maurus and Strabo do?

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They did not deny the fundamental connections between sin and disease

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Why did the period of monastic medicine end?

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  • COUNCIL OF CLERMONT in 1130 forbade monks from practicing medicine since it was too disruptive for orderly life in monastries
  • Medicine fell into the hand of SECULAR CLERGY
  • Arabic medicine
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What was Salerno?

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The first famous medical centre of the Middle Ages close to Arab Sicily

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What was Montpellier?

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The first medically outstanding medical university situated in Souther France near the Spanish border

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Describe Salerno

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  • Lay school
  • Combined Arabism with practical
  • Treatises contain descriptions of DYSENTERY and UROGENITAL DISEASES
  • Women were medical practitioners and teachers
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Salerno’s curriculum was accepted by the University of Paris (TRUE/FALSE)

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TRUE

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Describe Medical education in Medieval Universities

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  • Medical men were priests
  • Orderly medical education
  • Scholastic standards
  • International universities (No language barriers since Latin was used)
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Describe Medical education in Medieval Universities

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  • Medical men were priests
  • Orderly medical education
  • Scholastic standards
  • International universities (No language barriers since Latin was used)
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What was the Greatest period in the 13th century?

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The Golden age for Montpellier

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Who were the famous doctors of the 13th century?

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  • Bernard of Gordon
  • Gilbertus Anglicus
  • John Gaddesden
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Who is Arnold of Villanova?

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  • A famous medieval physician that studied at Montpellier
  • Employed by princes for diplomatic missions
  • Critical attitude toward Galen
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Who advocated experimental attitude towards medicine?

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Famous churchmen
- Albertus Magnus
- Roger Bacon

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Describe the Scholastic medicine of the second half of the Middle Ages

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  • Repetition of Greek observations, theories and prescriptions
  • Numerous saints specialised in specific diseases
  • Authority, seasoning and dialectics were the backbone of medicine
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Anatomy in the 14th century became more observational and original (TRUE/FALSE)

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TRUE

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What happened to surgery in the Middle Ages?

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  • THE COUNCIL OF TOURS took surgery out of the hands of physicians
  • Surgery was left to barbers, bath-keepers, mountebanks and quaks
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Where was surgery practiced by physicians?

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In Italy and Southern France

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Who was Lanfranc of Milan?

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  • Sacileto’s pupil
  • Left Italy -> Italian surgery transmitted to France
  • Joined the College of St Cosme
  • Body physician of the French king Philip the Fair
  • Great authority
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Who was Henri de Mondeville?

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  • A graduate of Montpellier
  • Body physician to Philip the Fair in later times
  • Emphasised studying anatomy
  • Opposed the idea of coction and “laudable pus”
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Who was Guy de Chauliac?

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  • Excellent surgeon
  • Improved operations for the stone and cataract
  • Favored coction and “laudable pus”
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The church forbade dissections (TRUE/FALSE)

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FALSE

The church NEVER forbade dissections. After the 13th century, dissections were practiced on an increasing scale.

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Why did anatomy remain unchanged despite dissections?

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  • Doctors supervised dissections but did not actually observe what was being dissected
  • They saw what they were SUPPOSED to see according to GALEN
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What was the Black Death?

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In 1348 the Black Death wiped out a large percentage of the European population

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What advancement came from the Black Death?

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  • The quarantine
  • Church lost prestige and priests took advantage of performing funerals
  • Pessimistic outlooks
  • Some people turned to magic and witchcraft
  • Massive migration
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What happened in the Black Death?

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  • Fleas jumped from rats to infest clothes of traders travelling from Asia to Europe
  • Took 4 years to reach all parts of Europe
  • Unsanitary conditions in towns and homes guaranteed the spread of disease
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What were the symptoms of the Bubonic plague?

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  • Swelling
  • Black bruises
  • Heavy sweats
  • Convulsive coughing
  • People spat blood and stank (rotting flesh)
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What were attempts to stop the plague?

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  • A doctor’s robe
  • Leeching

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