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5. The Middle Ages Medicine
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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
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