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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