middle ages Flashcards
history (33 cards)
What are the supernatural ideas for causes of diseases?
The church
Astrology
What did the church teach about disease?
God gave illness for punishment for sins
How did astrology cause disease
When the stars were out of line illness happened
What were natural ideas for cause of disease
Theory of four humours
Theory of opposites
Miasma
What was the theory of four humours
Idea that the body had 4 liquids
Black bile yellow bile blood and phlegm
if they were out of balance the body would try and get rid of it
Who thought of the 4 humours
hippocrates
What was the theory of opposites
Development of the 4 humours
added more treatments
e.g cucumbers if too hot
Who thought of the theory of opposite
Galen
Why did the church support galen and hippocrates ideas
It agreed with the bible
What was miasma
Bad smells and air caused disease
What were supernatural treatments or preventions for disease
religious
astrology
scrofula
What were religious treatments and preventions
pray to forgive their sins
light a candle the length of your illness
pilgrimage
flagellation
not sinning
What was scrofula
a specific disease cured by the kings touch
What were treatments for the 4 humours
Blood-letting
Purging
Warm baths
Foods
Whats blood-letting
When physicians thought patients had to much blood it would be drained by leeches or cutting
How was warm baths a prevention or treatment
help dissolve humour blockages
Whats another natural treatment or prevention
herbal remedies
what were the carers in the middle ages
physicians
apothercaries
women in the home
barber surgeons
hospitals
What were physicians
Docotors trained in universities
read galen and hippocrates
what were apthecaries
mix potions and herbs to create medicines
what were barber surgeons
not well qualified
cut hair
performed small surgeries such as pulling teeth and blood-letting
What were hospitals
mostly looked after travellers then the sick
owned by the church run by monks and nuns
a place to rest and recover
place to die in comfort
Why was book learning significant
most people couldnt read so if you could it was a sign of intelligence
a good doctor was someone who read galen and hippocrates
How was the public health poor
most worked on farms-weakened their bodies
nutrition was poor-famine
crowded streets had no drainage
