medieval

• Who are two key individuals in the medieval period?

  Galen and Hippocrates
• What were the four humours?

  Yellow bile, black bile, blood & phlegm
• What was 'Miasma Theory'?

  The theory that bad air caused disease
• What were humoural treatments?

  Bloodletting and purging
• What was the 'Theory of Opposites'?

  The idea that to be healthy your humours had to be balanced
• What did people think caused disease in the medieval period?

  God, miasma, humours and astrology
• How long did physicians go to university for?

  7-10 years
• Who could afford physicians?

  Only the wealthy elite
• What was the name for the list of rules on how to stay healthy in the medieval period?

  Regimen Sanitatis
• Who were the most experienced, practical medical professional in the medieval period?

  Barber surgeons
• Which medical professional could everyone access?

  Wise women
• What did apothecaries offer?

  Herbal remedies and poison
• How many hospitals were there by 1500?

  1100
• What did hospitals offer in the medieval period?

  Care not cure', mainly to pilgrims and travellers
• When did the Black Death arrive in England?

  1348
• What was the main symptom of the Black Death?

  Buboes
• What were the main beliefs about the causes of the Black Death?

  God's punishment, miasma, astrology
• How did people try to treat the Black Death?

  Praying, fasting, lancing buboes
• Why was government intervention (quarantine laws) not effective in the medieval period?

  The Church was too powerful so people still wanted to attend, meaning the disease continued to spread
• How did people try to prevent the Black Death?

  Flagellation, praying, evacuating
• How did hospitals change in the Renaissance?

  People could now go to pest houses to treat infectious diseases such as the plague