medieval

• what is the medieval medicine timeline

  1250 - 1500
• causes in medieval

  • miasma
  • punishment from God
  • astrology
  • Unbalanced 4 humours
• prevention in medieval medicine

  • praying
  • repenting
  • flagellation
  • Regimen Sanitatis
  • sweet smelling herbs and incense
• treatment in medieval

  • four humours
  • theory of opposites
  • herbal remedies
• what were the 4 humours

  • black bile
  • yellow bile
  • phlegm
  • blood
• one example of herbal remedies in the medieval period

  • theriaca (opium and snake blood)
• Care in the medieval period

  • received care mainly at home
  • hospital care but not treatment
  • care from wise women
• how many hospitals were there by the 1500's

  300
• 2 key physicians in medieval

  • Galen
  • Hippocrates
• What was Galen known for

  the theory of opposites
• what was Hippocrates

  • the theory of the four humours
• what was the medieval case study

  • the Black Death
• when was the black death

  1348
• causes for the Black death

  • punishment from God
  • miasma
  • Jewish people
• prevention in the Black death

  • flagellation
  • mass prayer
  • rosemary hung
  • stone font to clean money
• what did the rich people do during the Black Death

  • left London
• what did the Government do during the Black Death

  • No government intervention
• medieval medics

  • apothecaries
  • physicians
  • Barber surgeons
• apothecaries

  • no university
  • family recipes
• physicians

  • attended university
  • book learning
  • no practical experience
  • high pay
  • high status and respect
• Barber surgeon

  • no university
  • low status
  • low pay
• influence of medieval church

  • monks spreading information
  • censorship
  • slow
  • banned dissections
  • spreads ideas of Galen
• Improvements in the medieval period

  • printing press invented in 1440
  • urine charts
  • crusades
• what was the role of a gong farmer

  • someone who dug out and removed human excrements from toilets
• who was galen

  • a greek anatomist who lived in rome
• most common belief for the black death

  • punishment from God
• Regiment Sanitatis

  • A programme of cleanliness designed by medieval physicians to help restore the Four Humours.
• when did the Black Death reach england

  • 1348
• reasons for it being a period of continuity

  • influence of ancient figures, Galen and Hippocrates
  • the role of the church
  • education controlled by the church
  • lack of scientific understanding, miasma
  • limited medical advances, ban on dissections
• hospitals

  -funded by aristocratic patrons and the church

  -palliative care not treatment

  example: Bedlam in london 1247
• Crusades impact

  -war meant the government put more funding into the military and the war then into hospitals

  -however this enabled western Europeans to meat with Islamic doctors so ideas and remedies were spread
• which monk was arrested for challenging the religious bonks

  • roger bacon
• roman empire falling

  • ancient Rome and Greek texts were lost
  • monks tried to copy and preserve these texts
  • people began to question the reliance of these texts
• Hippocrates

  • clinical observations
  • Hippocratic oath
  • Four humours
• Hippocratic oath

  binds them to keep a set of ethical standards for their patients
• Hippocrates birth place

  ancient greece
• black bile

  • considered to be related with autumn and earth
  • laxatives and vegetables to be treated
• yellow bile

  • summer and fire
  • throwing up and changing diet
• blood

  • spring and air
  • bloodletting, eating red meat, drinking red wine
• phlegm

  • winter and water
  • breathing steam
  • eating vegetables filled with water