Medieval

• What is Hippocrates known as?


  Father of modern medicine
• What did Hippocrates invent?


  Theory of 4 humors
• What did Galen invent?

  Theory of opposites
• What did Thomas Sydenham write?


  Observations medicae
• What is the four humours?

  The belief if something was out of balance you will be ill
• Who promoted Galens ideas?


  The church
• Who had the most power in medieval England?

  The church
• If people went against the church they risked getting...?

  Excommunicated or imprisoned
• Who controlled what people read?

  The church
• Medieval England ideas of treatment

  religion, blood-letting, astrology, remedies, purging
• Medieval advice to prevent illness

  pray, diet, regimen sanitatis, purify the air
• What did a medieval physician do?


  Diagnose illness, recommend treatment
• What did a medieval apothecary do?

  Mix herbal remedies, prescribe poison, study herbal manuals
• What did a medieval barber surgeon do?

  Small surgery, bleed patients, pull teeth
• What was the black death?

  An outbreak of the bubonic plague
• Symptoms of the black death

  fever, chest pains, sneezing and coughing blood, boils
• What was miasma?

  Bad smells
• What were the different types of blood-letting?


  Cutting the vein, leaches, cupping
• What were medieval hospitals there to do?

  Care not cure
• Galen 


  theory of opposites
• Hippocrates


  theory of the 4 humors