Medieval

• Treating the sick:

  • Barber surgeons
  • Wise men/ women
  • Monasteries
• Wine and honey were used to reduce the chance of infection
• What did John bradmore do?

  Invented a tool that removed an arrow head, key factor = war
• What did Hugh and theodoric of lucca do?

  • Used wine and honey to reduce chances of infection
  • Ideas about infection clashed with hippocrates beliefs
  • Developed new methods of how to remove arrows
• Did christianity hinder medicine?

  • Christians believed sickness was sent by god to punish people for sinning. They prayed away sickness
  • They supported galen, for exampe when roger bacon said docters should do there own research, he was put in prison
• Did christianity help medicine?

  • The church preserved knowleged handed from greeks and romans
  • Monks in monasteries copied out ancient books, including medical records
• What did Rhazes do?


  Discovered the difference between measles and small pox (Disease and infection)
• Whar did ibn nafis do?

  Said galen was wrong about the heart, claimed blood circulated via the lungs (anatomy)
• What did ibn sina do?

  Wrote a medical encyclopaedia (The canon) and it was used to teach physicans, he was significant because he was know was "galen of islam"
• Medical treatments:

  • To become a docter, you had to train at universities
  • Astrology, a docter would base your medication on the position of planets (continuity of the supernatural)
  • 4 humours, docters used blood letting to balance the 4 humours
  • Women couldnt go to university but were allowed to become midwifes
  • Urine was used for diagnosis, on a colour chart
• What did roger frugardi do?

  • Wrote a book on surgey, in 1180, which was used throughout europe
  • Had ambitious operations such as removal of bladder stones
• When was the black death?

  1349
• Beliefs about the black death:

  • Spread by religion - flagellants whipped themselves as a punishment
  • Miasma
  • Position of planets
  • Inbalance of 4 humours
• Treatments for the black death:

  • Herbal medicines
  • Sleeping on both sides equally
• During the medieval period there was a regression in public health
• Public health:

  • Filth covered the streets, so much that priests couldnt get to church
  • Tanners cleaned in rivers
  • Rivers filled with tanic acid, lume, blood, fat, dead animals, fish
• When was the sanitation act?

  1388
• What was the sanitation act?

  Banned pollution in rivers