Medieval Medicine Flashcards
(43 cards)
What was scientific knowledge like in medieval times
Very little
What was public health like
No sanitation or sewers
When was Black Death
1348
Biggest killers
War and famine
% of children dead before 7
30
Three people to see in medieval England when I’ll
Local wise woman, barber surgeon, uni trained doc, travelling doctor
who were travelling healers
they extracted teeth, sold potions and mended fractures/ dislocations
Brief description of wise woman
Local woman who has skills passed through family, gave first aid, herbal remedies, supernatural cures
Barber surgeon
Carry out minor surgeries trained as an apprenticeship by other barber surgeon
Brief description of uni doc
7 years training without seeing a body, most advanced doctors, trained from books, H&G
very few in England, expensive
Who created 4 humours and what were they
Hippocrates
blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
a doctor believed that a patient fell ill because the four humors were imbalanced
Who came first h or g
Hippocrates
Who created theory of opposites
Galen
Who did the church revolve their medical ideas around
H & G
How did the church control medieval medicine
Provided public health and controlled schooling around medicine, also owned and ran All hospitals
How did the church help medieval medicine
Provided care for ill as Jesus did the same, allowed h & g’s ideas to be studied and developed in the future
How did the church limit progress of medieval medicine
Limited doctors ability to challenge h & g,many treatments where seen as prayer could cure them
Beliefs of causes of disease in medieval medicine (supernatural and natural)
natural - Hippocrates & Galen
doctors used:
clinical observation by checking pulse and urine
based theories around the 4 humors
supernatural - used for the many diseases which H&G couldn’t explain
doctors checked positions of stars
recommended charms and prayer
Prevention/ treatment methods in medieval medicine
Praying(repenting sins through good acts) rational treatments such as bloodletting and purging, herbal remedies
Key individuals in medieval surgery and what they did
John Bradmore- used honey and wine as antiseptic, wrote his methods in his books to communicate new techniques for other surgeons
Hugh and Theodoric of Lucca - Italian surgeons who questioned ideas of galen that pus was a sign wound was healings. Lucca experimented with herbal remedies as anaesthetics
barber surgeons
Key individuals in Islam medicine medieval
Ibn sina, Al razi, and hunain Ibn shaq
What did Al razi do
Helped plan building of hospital in modern day Iraq, first documented hospital in world
Hung meat in different parts of city and put hospital in place where meat took longest time to rot
Believed In importance of observation and seeking natural causes
First person to identify difference between small pox and measles
Wrote over 200 books which where translated into Latin to teach in Europe
What did ibn sina do
Doctor and astronomer. Wrote many books. Most famous was cannon of medicine in 1025 - ideas about anatomy and human development. Being one of first doctors to build off galen ideas not just copy them.
What where town conditions like
Romans built expensive public health systems, e.g. public toilets but destroyed them to destroy remembrance of Roman Empire. Caused serious consequences to town conditions in medieval period.
