treatment of diseases Flashcards
(30 cards)
what were the 4 sectpors of traeting dieases in the middle ages
religous treatment
four humours
herbal remedies
supernatural
how would you treat diseases with religion in the middle ages
you could pray , fats , go on pilgrames
how could you treat the 4 humours in the midlle ages
bloodletting cupping leeching bathing purging
what is cupping
putting warm cups onto open cuts to draw out the blood
what is purging
swallowing a mixture of herbs and animal fat to make you sikc
what did they use as antiseptic for surgery in the middle ages
they used wine
what did they use as anathetsics in the middle ages
opium or helmock
problems with medieval surgery
surgeyies were filthy as they didin’t have an aidea that dirt carried diease
they didn’t stop infections
what did surgeons lack in the middle ages
they weren’t trianed and new little about the anatomy
hwo would poeple treat the ides that the supernatural caused dieases n the middle ages
y would use trepanning to release demaons
what were the treatment of diease in the renaissance epriod
transference supernatural bleeding and purging chemical cures herbal remedies
how would people treat diseases using chemical cures in the renaissance period
the college of physicians suggested that 112 chemicals where used to treat 2140 illness
what was transference in the middle ages
that illness could be transferred from a patient to something else
what ideas of prevention of diseases remained in the renaissance from the medieval
bleeding and purging , supernatural , religious ,
what was the chnage is treating miasma in the renaissance period
people still had sweet smelling herbs but they focused on removing sewage from the streets
what were the two dates of the public health act
1848 1st public health act
2nd public health act 1875
changes in attidude to for the governemnt to public heatlth
they changed ffrom havign a lassiez fiare government to having a more Hands on government
what did the 2nd public health act cause not to happen
it caused for cholera not to come back again
name 5 things that the piblic health act entotled
clean water swers dispose of waste public oilets strret lights public parks for excerise
what did the government introduce in the modern peirod to reudce illness
they had compulsury vaccines
scrrening for gentic diseases]
charities communicating health rrisks
govenemtn lifetsyle campgains
stop october and sugar smart
what did the clean air act law entail
it was aimed to reuce pollution
when were x rays dicovered
1895 by wilhelm rontgen
how did aseptc surgery impri=ove in the 1884
doctors and nurses started wearing gloves ans stertilising there gown
