Booklet 1 Medicine Flashcards
(34 cards)
What were 5 reasons of disease and illness in Medieval times?
- Poverty
- Famine
- Warfare
- Accidental death
- Lack of hygiene
How did poverty cause illness?
75 % could not feed themselves not enough money to buy food, water etc
How did Famine cause death?
1315-1317
-10% of the population died from starvation
What did Medieval people THINK made them ill?
- God
- Bad smells
- Supernatural (witches)
- Everyday life (death was inevitable , low life expectancy)
- Four humours
3 Facts About Black Death 1348?
- Began in Asia
- First arrived in in Dorset
- Killed 50% to 66% of British Population
What did Medieval people think started off the Black death?
- Bad smells, invisible fumes
- Four humours being out of balance
- Position of planets
- God
- Jews poisoning the wells and springs
How many people died of the Plague in 1665?
25% of people died
What was the average life expectancy for labourers in Bethnal Green in London in 1842?
-15
What made disease spread quickly in industrial towns?
- contaminated food and water (typhoid, cholera)
- poor sanitation (typhoid)
- cramped spaces
Where did Spanish flu come around?
-At the end of the war, a strain of flu that originated from China, spread around the world
What did people think Spanish Flu came from?
- German biological warfare
- effect of Trench warfare and use of mustard gas
Why did Spanish flu spread quickly?
–a war and weakened population aided by mass troop movements at the end of the war
How many people did Spanish flu kill?
- A few months in 280,000 people died n the UK
- 7 million people died in Spain, (Spanish flu)
2014 Aids statisitcs?
-In2014, it was ESTIMATED 40 million people died of AIDS and 40 million people were living with the disease
What were attitudes towards AIDS that we had before?
- If we repent our sins would be cured
- God is punishing us
- AIDS can be caught from touching people
- Isolate victims stop spread
What was different with AIDS compared to other epidemics?
- you can easily stop the spread of AIDS
- know how it’s spread
What did people in Early modern times think disease spread?
- miasma (bad smells)
- human contact
Who invented the theory of the four humours and what was it?
- Hippocrates
- blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile, out of balance caused illness
How did Medieval people try PREVENT catching the Black Death?
- the church was influential at the time, had to live a pure and Christian life
- pray
- whipped themselves to purify themselves in God’s eyes
- Bloodletting to let evil spirits out
- drink urine once a day
What were soothsayers?
- wise women who were knowledgeable of sickness and disease and which herbs helped
- claimed they could see in the future
- collected plants, herbs, special stones and carried it around with them
- made special charms to protect against evil
What were aclhemists?
scientists
How did herbal remedies work?
-Used for their magical properties
How did medieval people try treat disease?
- Herbal
- Leeches
- Purging
- Urine
- Astrology
- Zodiac
- Barber surgeon
How was urine used?
Drs would carefully compare the colour of your urine to a chart
