Medieval England Flashcards
(30 cards)
When was the Black Death?
1348
What is Wattle and Daub?
Method of construction walls- made with twigs and clay or mud
Pottage
Vegetable stew often ate by peasants
Cesspit
A pit for sewage without treating it
Small Beer
Low alcohol brew considered healthy
Famine
Severe hunger of a large population of people, leading to death and diseases
Midden
Dump for waste
Pneumonic Plague
Affects respiratory system
Cause of Pneumonic Plague?
Breathing in cough droplets from others
Septicemic Plague
Inflects the circulatory system
Cause of Septicemic Plague?
When infection reaches the bloodstream
Gongfermer
Someone who dug out and removed human waste from cesspits or privies
How did the Black Plague spread?
Overcrowded towns and villages
Lack of science and technology
People travelling
Careless kings and governments
Dysentery
Infection of the intestine caused by contact with human faeces
How did people get rid of their waste and consequences?
Putting on streets- disease
Influenza
Virus that affects lungs caused by talking, coughing and sneezing
Childbed fever
Infection of the uterus caused by unsanitary conditions during child birth
4 Humours
Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Phlegm
Why was there so much disease in towns?
Overcrowded, packed together, people did not know how to stay clean
Science and Technology
Medieval people did not know about how diseases/ illnesses spread
Treating illnesses
Did not know how to treat illnesses properly or safely
Water/Streams
The water from streams was very dirty as gongfermers would often throw the human waste into the streams
Ergotism
poisoning by eating grain or grasses infected with ergot fungus
Contaminated
Making something unclean or dirty
