Medicine

Question 1

Superstition

Answer 1

Belief not based on knowledge but in supernatural like God, witchcraft and astrology.

Question 2

Purging

Answer 2

To rid the body of an excess like blood or vomit

Question 3

Leeching

Answer 3

Using leeches for bloodletting

Question 4

Cupping

Answer 4

Using glass cups to draw blood to the surface

Question 5

Fasting

Answer 5

Avoiding eating or drinking

Question 6

Pilgrimage

Answer 6

A journey to a religious shrine and relics to show live of God and to cure illness

Question 7

Mass

Answer 7

Public worship in a Roman Catholic Church

Question 8

Astrology

Answer 8

Study of the planets and effect on humans

Question 9

Miasma

Answer 9

“Bad air” which was blamed for spreading disease

Question 10

Apothecary

Answer 10

Medieval pharmacist or chemist

Question 11

Wise woman

Answer 11

Female healer used herbal remedies

Question 12

Vademecum

Answer 12

Medieval medical book carried by doctors

Question 13

Urine chart

Answer 13

Used to examine urine to define illness

Question 14

Physician

Answer 14

A male medically trained doctor

Question 15

Barber surgeon

Answer 15

Untrained surgeon who practiced basic surgery

Question 16

Dissection

Answer 16

To cut open a human and examine the insides

Question 17

Epidemic

Answer 17

Widespread outbreak of a disease

Question 18

Amulet

Answer 18

Charm that brought “protection” from a disease

Question 19

Black Death

Answer 19

Bubonic plague

Question 20

Monastery

Answer 20

Building where monks live, eat and pray

Question 21

1250-1500

Answer 21

13th - 16th century / Middle Ages

Question 22

1123

Answer 22

Britain’s first hospital St. Bartholomews (London)

Question 23

1348

Answer 23

Black Death kills 1/3 of England’s population

Question 24

1350

Answer 24

Average life expectancy is 35 years old

Question 25

1388

Answer 25

Parliament passes first law requiring streets and rivers to be kept clean

Question 26

What did people think caused the Black Death?

Answer 26

Punishment from God, Bad air/smells (Miasma), Planets, 4 Humours, Outsiders (Jews) and Brightly coloured Clothes

Question 27

How did people treat the Black Death?

Answer 27

Popped buboes (frog/red got poker), Prayed for help/forgiveness, Punishes themselves, Lit candles, put bread on/around popped buboes (then bury the bread), Purging or Bloodletting (if you survived long enough, Herbal remedies and strapping toads, pigeons or chickens to buboes.

Question 28

How did people try to prevent getting the Black Death?

Answer 28

Didn’t allow strangers into their villages, purify air with good smells (herbs/fires), prayer, burying the dead, flagellation (whipping), carrying charms, isolation, burning barrels of tar or smelling worse smells

Question 29

How did living conditions contribute to the spread of the Black Death?

Answer 29

The streets were dirty and full of human waste and carts of plague victims were pushed through the streets