Medieval Treatments of Disease

Question 1

Religious Treatments
P___
C___
Pi____

Answer 1

Prayer
Confession
Pilgrimage

Question 2

What was pilgrimage? Give an example of a shrine
(HWIC, CURE SDs)

Answer 2

Sick embark on a difficult religious journey to the shrine of a saint.
Holy well in Canterbury that was believed to cure skin diseases

Question 3

Who could treat you?

Answer 3

Apothecaries, Physicians, Quacks, Barber Surgeons, Wise Women/Women at home

Question 4

Natural Treatments (Physicians)
Ba___
TOO
Bleed right place (PC)

Answer 4

Balancing the humours
Theory of opposites
Phlebotomy charts (bleed right place)

Question 5

Natural Treatments (Apothecaries)
HRs
Th___s
Ba__
P + L ___

Answer 5

Herbal Remedies
Theriacas
Balancing humours
Purging and laxative effects

Question 6

Natural Treatments (Quacks)
Similar _____ to the ______
Fraudulent ___ CAs

Answer 6

Offered similar medicines to the apothecary
Promoted commonly fraudulent cure-alls

Question 7

Natural Treatments (Barber Surgeons)
Ba___ E___
TP, LB RG, A

Answer 7

Basic external surgery
Tooth pulling, lancing boils, removing growths
Amputations (very dangerous)

Question 8

When was the first hospital in England created? Where?
How many hospitals run by Church (%)

Answer 8

1123, St. Bartholomew’s in London
30-60%

Question 9

What was the focus for the sick in Medieval Hospitals?

Answer 9

Care not cure

Question 10

How many hospitals were there in 1400 and 1500?
Why was the increase so rapid?

Answer 10

1400 - 200
1500 - 1500
Because new smaller hospitals were being set up by guilds and wealthy townspeople in more urban settings to care for local people. (Care not cure)