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What group of people dominated medieval society

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Christian Church

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what was superstition

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A belief based on God, witchcraft or astrology.

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what was mass

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Public worship in the Roman Catholic Church.

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what was a urine chart

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Used to examine urine to define illness.

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what was a vademecum

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A medieval medical book carried by doctors.

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what is an epidemic

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A widespread outbreak of a disease.

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what is a monastery

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A building where monks live, eat and pray.

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what were the 4 humours

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Phlegm, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Blood

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what is purging

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To rid the body of an excess like blood or vomit.

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what is leeching

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The use of leeches for bloodletting.

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what is cupping

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Using glass cups to draw blood to the surface.

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what is fasting

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To avoid eating or drinking

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what is a pilgrimage

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A journey to a religious temple to show your love of God and cure illness.

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what is astrology

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the idea of alignment of stars and planets causing illness. It helped with diagnosis. Not new in 1250 but at black death, church accepted it more

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what is miasma

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Bad air which was blamed for spreading disease.

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what is an apothecary

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A medieval pharmacists or chemist.

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What is a Wise Woman

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A female healer who cured illnesses. They used herbal remedies.

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what is a physician

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A male medically trained doctor.

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what is a barber surgeon

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Untrained surgeon who practised basic surgery.

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what is dissection

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To cut open a human and examine the insides

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what is an amulet

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A charm that brought protection from disease.

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what was the black death

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A term to describe the bubonic plague.

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who controlled the ideas of medicine

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church

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who ran education and learning of medicine

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church

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Did church allow challenging ideas
no.
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was dissection allowed
it was discouraged
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who were the only people who could read and write
Priests and monks
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where were most books held
in monasteries
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who was preferred by church, Galen or Hippocrates
Galen, his ideas of body having soul and god creating it as it is so perfect
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Where were most hospitals held inside
monasteries and nunneries
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What did Jesus expect everybody to do
care for the sick
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Who was Hippocrates
An ancient greek doctor. Anti-god causing disease theories. believed physical causes and physical cures.
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What were Hippocrates ideas for preventation of disease
exercise, rest,
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What were Hippocrates ideas for the curing of disease
bleeding, purging to balance the humours
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What is the Hippocrates oath
where doctors must sign to state they will respect life and prevent harm to the body
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what was clinical observation
the method of taking notes of symptoms, comparing to similar cases and then treating and diagnosing - Modern day way
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What were the four humours
they were 4 substances in your body believed to be the reason for illness. They must be balanced to stay healthy.
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Who made up the 4 humours theory
Hippocrates
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what period was the 4 humours theory still relevant up until
Middle Ages
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Who was Galen
A doctor in ancient Rome who wrote many books about medicine. Mainly developed Hippocrates' ideas and Drew detailed diagrams of injured gladiators
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Who did Galen dissect upon
Gladiators and dead animals
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What 2 ideas of prevention did Galen support
purging and bloodletting
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Who invented the theory of opposites
Galen
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What was the theory of opposites
Where If you had a cold, you should eat something hot
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What is Miasma
where a bad smell is transmitting disease
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What caused miasma
God which indicated a sin
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What century saw miasma theories end
19th century
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What 2 rational treatments were most common in middle ages, linked to 4 humours
bloodletting and purging
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what was bloodletting
Releasing blood to make four humours equal again
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What 3 jobs performed bloodletting in general
Physicians, barber surgeons and non-medical persons
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What was purging
Way of re-balancing 4 humours making patients vomit or poo in the toilet.
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What did wise women and apothecaries give patients to purge
emetics
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What were common remedies
herbs, drank or bathed in or sniffed
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Who sold remedies
apothecaries
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What 4 things were religious treatments / preventions
praying, fasting, going on pilgrimages, paying for mass' to be heard
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What did barber surgeons do
Bloodletter, Pulled teeth out, cut hair, basic surgery like amputations (low success rate)
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What did apothecaries do
Mixed medicines or ointments to make remedies based on doctors or their knowledge
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What did physicians do
diagnosed and gave treatments, or sent patients to barber surgeons or apothecaries,
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How much training did barber surgeons have
none
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how much training did physicians have
university and passed exams
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how much training did apothecaries have
training but no qualifications
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How was urine examined
urine charts in physicians vademecums. Urine tested by colour and taste
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how were zodiac charts used
Zodiac charts used to help diagnose illness and work out when to treat patients
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When was St Bartholomew's Hospital made
1078
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What were hospitals mainly used for
hotels kind of for travellers and pilgrims
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Who was the god of healing
Asclepius
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When was the Black death
1348-49
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How much of the population of Britain was killed
nearly 1/3
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What disease was causing the Black Death epidemic
bubonic plague
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How was the disease spread
flees living on black rats
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What is flagellation
punishing yourself to prevent god giving disease
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How did people think religion caused the black death
God sent plague to punish for sins
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how did people think astrology caused the black death
Positioning of Mars, Saturn and Jupiter was unusual at the time
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How was miasma thought to have caused black death
Bad air caused from decaying rubbish
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how was volcanoes thought to have caused black death
poisonous gases caused from European volcanoes
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how was 4 humours thought to be cause of black death
Humours out of balance
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How were outsiders thought to be causing black death
strangers or witches caused disease
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How did praying and fasting avoid catching black death
Told god they were sorry for sins
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How did cleaning streets avoid black death
less likely that miasma would appear
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How did smelling toilets avoid black death
belief that it would overcome disease
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How did lighting a fire avoid black death
kept air moving around
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how did carrying herbs and spices avoid catching black death
bad air wasn't breathed in
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Why was banning people in and out of villages good for avoiding the black death
Didn't bring or let out any diseases
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What were the symptoms of the black death
Swelling into large lumps called buboes, Fever and chills, Headaches, vomiting and Diarrhoea and pain.
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What were treatments for the black death
Praying and holding lucky charms, Cutting open buboes to drain pus, Holding bread against buboes and then placing bread in the ground, Eating hot things and takings hot baths

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