medicine

Question 1

what are some things believed to cause disease in medieval medicine?

Answer 1

God, Witches and spirits, Astrology, miasma

Question 2

What is a printing press?

Answer 2

A machine that performed early printing(made in 1440)

Question 3

What did galen do?

Answer 3

Came up with the theory of opposites and discovered arteries carry blood.

Question 4

What did Hippocrates do?

Answer 4

Came up with the idea of observing how the body works before trying to treat it and trying to use natural medicines. Furthermore, he invented the theory of the 4 humors.

Question 5

What were the 4 humours?

Answer 5

black bile
yellow bile
phlegm
blood

Question 6

What time period was a lot of medieval medicine based off?

Answer 6

Ancient Rome and Greece

Question 7

What were the main Medieval “doctors”

Answer 7

Normal doctors and Barber surgeons- neither had medical training

Question 8

What is an apothecary?

Answer 8

A medieval person who sold medicine

Question 9

Whose ideas did medieval doctors follow?

Answer 9

Galen and Hippocrates.

Question 10

Were human dissections allowed during the medieval time?

Answer 10

No, the Church banned any human dissection aside from executed criminals. This meant many discoveries (such as Galens) could not be proved wrong.

Question 11

What was the anesthetic field like during medieval surgery?

Answer 11

They had none, only natural ones that would slightly numb the pain existed, however high does could kill people and surgery was still extremely painful.

Question 12

What was infection like during Medieval surgery?

Answer 12

There was very limited understanding of what caused diseases and infection, therefore many doctors would help infect wounds thinking it was helping. e.g putting pus in a wound.

Question 13

What were the 3 main issues with medieval surgery?

Answer 13

Pain
Infection
Blood loss

Question 14

Why was the printing press Important in the Renaissance?

Answer 14

It allowed people to spread new research and discoveries very easily and cheaply.

Question 15

When was human dissection first put into common practice?

Answer 15

During the Renaissance- allowing more accurate illustrations and records.

Question 16

What did Vesalius do?

Answer 16

He used dissections to show that Galen was wrong. Furthermore, he released ‘the fabric of the human body’ which reached many physicians internationally. This inspired more doctors to do dissections.

Question 17

What did William Harvey do?

Answer 17

Came up with the theory that blood circulated and the heart pumped it around.

Question 18

What was The Royal Society?

Answer 18

They sponsored scientists to research and print findings about physics, botany, astronomy and medicine. The Royal society helped to spread new ideas.

Question 19

What were some treatment advances in the Renaissance?

Answer 19

Hospitals began to treat patients, not just care for.
There were a lot of towns with pharmacies.
Books were published about how to treat illness at home.

Question 20

What were some remedies for the great plague?

Answer 20

Moving to the countryside.
smoking.
bloodletting via leeches.
using animals such as snakes to draw out poison.
the great fire of London.

Question 21

What period did the number of hospitals spike?

Answer 21

The Renaissance

Question 22

When was the first college for physicians made?

Answer 22

early 16th century (1518)

Question 23

What happened to doctors and barber-surgeons during the Renaissance?

Answer 23

Doctors became professional surgeons who were well-paid and studied.
Barber surgeons were still unqualified and not very well respected.

Question 24

When were blood types discovered?

Answer 24

1900

Question 25

What was discovered in 1914 relating to storing blood?

Answer 25

Adding sodium citrate would stop it clotting while storing it.

Question 26

When were x rays discovered?

Answer 26

1895

Question 27

What did Marie Curie develop during the first world war?

Answer 27

Mobile X ray machines

Question 28

when was aspirin and insulin first made?

Answer 28

a= 1899
i=1921

Question 29

What was the impact on penicillin due to ww2

Answer 29

it rapidly became mass-produced

Question 30

what were medicinal advances due to ww1 and 2?

Answer 30

plastic surgery
blood transfusions
penicillin
mobile x ray machines

Question 31

what is penicillin?

Answer 31

the first antibiotic

Question 32

When were anesthetics developed?

Answer 32

half way of 19th century

Question 33

Who developed vaccination?

Answer 33

alexander flemming

Question 34

Who discovered the Germ theory?

Answer 34

Louis Pasteur