Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5. The Middle Ages Medicine
- Who treated illness?
- Doctors
- Believed in the humours
- Studied Galen
- Train by the Catholic Church
- Studied urine for
diagnosing diseases
- Surgeons
- Surgery was practised
- On surface
- Removed growths/
amputations
- Some surgeons
were skilled
- Barbers Surgeon
- Average person visited
them for surgery/dentistry
- Monks
- Provided the hospitals of
the day
- Caring for other ill
monk and locals
- Wise Women
- Relying on
tradition/superstition for cures
- Herbal remedies
- What did they think caused diseases?
- THE BLACK DEATH – arrived in 1348
No one know what caused it:
- God? Punishing for there sins?
- Bad air? Breathing in bad smell
made you ill?
- Planets? The alignment of the
planets brought bad luck and
disease?
- Four Humours? An imbalance
of humours?
- Treatment/Prevention
- THE BLACK DEATH – arrived in 1348
No one know what caused it:
- God? The flagellants whipped themselves
- Attendance to church increased
(Praying for help)
- Bad air? Carried flowers, burnt sweet
smelling wood, clear the smelly rubbish
- Planets? Take superstition treatment
- Put a frog on the buboes or
wear an amulet with a spell on
it
- Four humours? Drain some
blood (bleeding)
- RUN AWAY!
- Key ideas
- Public Health:
- Monasteries had good
Public Health
- Provided themselves with
clean water and toilet
- Copied from Romans
- Town did their best with
Public Health
- Passed laws
- limited butchering animal,
meats could not be dumped,
sewer open and on the streets
- Superstition was the main
idea behind medieval ideas
- Example of change
- Medicine/Health got worse:
- Roman ideas lost
- Roman public health
system were dismantled
- Wars meant that money wasn’t
spend on medicine care
- Catholic Church helped quality
of medicine recover
- Taught doctors
- Produce medical books
- Monasteries provided
medical care
- Banned dissection
- Banned new
ideas/challenges to Galen
- Example of continuity
- Galen was studied for 1000
years
- Monasteries kept roman
ideas on Public Health alive
- No idea what caused
disease
- Key figures
- The Catholic Church