Medieval Medicine Flashcards
When was the medieval period?
10th-15th century
What was a barber surgeon?
A dentist who carried out minor operations
What is an epidemic?
A sudden widespread infectious disease
What is effulent?
Liquid waste
What is the Hippocratic oath?
Oath taken by new doctors to help their patients
What is the doctrine of signature?
States that herbs that look like parts of the body can be used to treat those specific body parts.
What is a cesspit?
A hole in the ground full of sewage.
What is the term used to describe the burning of skin around a wound?
Cauterisation
What is the theory of the 4 humours?
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow & Black bile should be balanced in the body to help prevent disease.
Give 2 reasons why living in a town in the middle ages was unhealthy?
Poor, Cramped housing, human & animal waste in streets, no access to clean water.
Give 2 ways that towns tried to improve public health in the middle ages?
Wells for drinking water, fines for not cleaning streets, tax for street cleaning, muck rakers, bath houses.
How did medieval people keep healthy?
Tooth picks & mouth washes, combs & brushes, chewed fennel, bath house, drinking small ale.
If you were poor who would treat you if you became ill?
Women
Name 2 ways you could be treated by a Barber Surgeon.
Extraction of teeth, setting of broken bones, removal of moles etc…
How would an Apothecary treat you?
herbs, spices, herbal potions, use of four humours being balanced.
