Medicine (Question 1) Flashcards
What were 4 causes of illness and disease in Medieval times?
- Poverty/ Poor diet
- Famine
- Warfare
- Living conditions
Welsh example of causes of illness and disease
- Wrexham (market town)
- livestock brought in every day to market spreading manure and urine in the town centre
- the remains of animal carcasses were left to rot in the streets
What 5 things did medieval people THINK made them ill?
- God
- Bad smells
- Supernatural (witches)
- Everyday life (early death)
- Four humours
What were the four humours?
- Idea of Hippocrates and Galen
- disease caused by four humours being out of balance
- Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood
Welsh example of BLACK DEATH
- Arrived in Haverfordwest in 1349
- brought from ships in Bristol
- Over half of population died
When did the Black Death arrive in the UK?
1348
What did Medieval people believe caused the BLACK DEATH?
- Bad smells
- Four humours
- God
- Jews
How many people did the BLACK DEATH kill in the UK?
Up to 40 percent of the population
What were public health issues in industrial towns?
-Squalid living conditions meant that outbreaks of disease were common.
- Tenements were overcrowded, large families lived in cramped conditions.
-Sewage contaminated drinking water, which led to outbreaks of cholera and
typhoid; people did not know infected water spread cholera germs
Welsh Example for CHOLERA
There was an outbreak in SWANSEA in 1832
How was Spanish Flu spread?
- 1918-19
- Up to 40 million people died from this strain of bird flu
- The end of the First World War helped transmit the disease as returning troops spread it to the civilian population
Welsh Example for TUBERCOLOSIS
Penley Hospital in the 1960s to help prevent the spread of Tubercolosis
What is Tubercolosis
- spread by coughs or sneezes
- It was associated with poor housing and unhealthy working conditions of the Industrial Revolution
How do you cure TB
- vaccination
- better sanitation
