Medicine - Medieval Flashcards
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Why was medical progress hindered during the Medieval period?
Because the Church supported only Galen’s ideas, the church was very powerful and would consider any other idea heresy.
What is Roger Bacon’s importance during this period?
He suggested the Church should loook beyond Galen’s book for medical ideas. He was accused of heresy and arrested.
He serves as an example of how the Church hindered medical progress.
When was the Black Death?
1348
Where could you get medical assistance during the Medieval period?
- Monasteries: worked as a sort of hospital
- Apothecaries
- Barber-surgeons
- Monks/Nuns
- Family Members
What were the believed causes of disease in the Medieval period?
- Miasma
- Four Humours
- God or Sin
What are the Four Humours?
- Phlegm
- Blood
- Black bile
- Yellow bile
What was Galen’s theory of opposites?
As an imbalanced humour was believed to cause illness, Galen believed if the patient then balances the humour then they would get better
What was the theory of four humours?
- Human body is composed of four distinct fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
- An imbalance of these humors was believed to be the cause of illness, and treatments aimed to restore balance.
What symptoms were each unbalanced humour believed to cause?
- Too much blood gives a fever
- Too much phlegm gives a runny nose
- Too much yellow bile could cause vomitting
- Too much black bile could cause diarrhoea
What name is given to the 12 constellations that the Sun passes through?
Zodiacs
