Medicine Through Time 1

Question 1

When was the Middle Ages

Answer 1

1250-1500

Question 2

What was supernatural and religious explanationfor disease in the Middle Ages

Answer 2

• Church taught god made them ill because he was displeased with them

Question 3

Where were many hospitals housed in the Middle Ages

Answer 3

Monasteries and nunneries

Question 4

What link did people make to astrology and disease in the Middle Ages

Answer 4

The alignment of planets and stars was thought to cause disease

Question 5

What are the 4 humours

Answer 5

Blood
Yellow bile
Phlegm
Black bile

Question 6

What did people believe happened when the 4 humours were unbalanced

Answer 6

You became ill

Question 7

Who created the 4 humours

Answer 7

Hippocrates

Question 8

What is the theory of opposites

Answer 8

to balance the 4 humours you would need to give the opposite to their symptoms

Question 9

What is an example of the theory of opposites

Answer 9

If you had too much phlegm, eat hot peppers

Question 10

What idea did Hippocrates dismiss

Answer 10

The idea that god caused diseases

Question 11

What is miasma

Answer 11

Bad air

Question 12

What were the two rational treatment and preventions for against disease in the Middle Ages

Answer 12

Bloodletting and purging

Question 13

Give a supernatural method to prevent illness from the Middle Ages

Answer 13

Carrying lucky charms

Question 14

Give a rational method to preventing disease used in the Middle Ages

Answer 14

Purifying the air

Question 15

What were the 3 people who cared for the sick in the Middle Ages

Answer 15

Barber surgeons
Physicians
Apothecaries

Question 16

Give an advantage of a barber surgeon

Answer 16

Cost less than a physician

Question 17

What work did a barber surgeon do

Answer 17

Basic surgery like amputation and pulling teeth out

Question 18

Give an advantage of an apothecary

Answer 18

Cost less than a physician but more than a barber surgeon

Question 19

What did apothecaries do

Answer 19

Mixed medicine and ointments

Question 20

Give an advantage of a physician

Answer 20

Medically trained at a university

Question 21

What did a physician do

Answer 21

Diagnosed illnesses and gave treatments

Question 22

What were hospitals in the Middle Ages mainly known as

Answer 22

Places of recuperation rather than treatment