Ideas about the cause of disease and illness (Middle Ages 1250-1500):

Question 1

What did the church believe was the cause for illness and disease

Answer 1

Was a punishment for sin for both famine and illness. also to test believer’s faith.

Question 2

What were the four humours?

1. (what do vampires drink)
2. what do I have to spit out)
3. double b
4. vomiting related to number 3

Answer 2

1. Blood
2. phleghm
3. Black bile
4. yellow bile

Question 3

When is the four humours the most dominant?

1. blood
2. phlegm
3. black bile
4. yellow bile

Answer 3

1. Spring
2. winter
3. autumn
4. spring

Question 4

What is the side-effect of the four humours when most dominant.

Answer 4

1. fever
2. watery substance
3. clotted blood/visible in poo/vomit
4. in pus or vomit

Question 5

Who created the four humours. why? and when

Answer 5

Galen ancient Greece 2nd century

Question 6

How it was so influential of Galen and Hippocrates work

Answer 6

1. agreed with it
2. taught in university
3. church agreed with it
4. also linked in with religiousness as Galen believed it tied in with the soul.

Question 7

What were the original ideas of why we got sick

Answer 7

1. Miasma(bad air)
2. Astrology
3. urine charts

Question 8

causes or diagnosis of

1. Miasma
2. Astrology
3. urine chart

Answer 8

1. corpses swamps transmit disease. good smells stop it
2. Zodiac sign church never liked it
3. drink pee to check your four humours