1What are examples of factors of change?
Communication, attitudes to change, chance etc
2What were symptoms of the Black Death?
Slurred speech, pus-filled buboes, purple-looking skin swollen lymph nodes
3What were ideas about causes in the Medieval Period?
Punishment from God, astrology (alignment of the planets), T4Hs and miasma
4,What was used to prevent disease in the Medieval Period?
prayers and superstition
5What was used to treat disease in the Medieval Period?
bloodletting and purging
6What was the key factor that prevented changes in medicine?
The Church-they controlled many aspects of people’s lives
7What made up the 4 Humours?
Blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm
8What works did the Church promote?
Hippocrates and Galen
9What did physicians do?
diagnosed illnesse and offer courses of treatment
10How long did physicians work for their degrees?
7-10 years
11What were the 3 stages of consultation for a physician to take?
1. They would take a urine, feces and blood sample from the patient
2. Consult astrological charts which determined their birth and when they got sick
3. Based on this, they would create many courses of treatment
12Who could afford physicians?
Only the rich and wealthy could as physicians were expensive
13How many people are estimated to have died frim the Black Death?
3 million people
14When did the Black Death reach Britain?
1348
15How many hospitals were there by 1500?
1,100
16What did medieval hospitals provide?
they provided care rather than curing disease
17What institution ran hospitals?
The Church
18Why was there little change in the medieval period?
The Church still controlled what medical info was shared and promoted the works of Galen, doctors were taught the works of Galen and Hippocrates and were discouraged from experimenting, the ideas of Galen and Hippocrates made sense in practice as they gave good advice and new ideas couldn’t spread as the church controlled what info was shared
19What factor changed how ideas were spread in the Renaissance?
improved communication- the invention of the printing press by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1440; when it came to Europe in the 1500s this allowe new ideas to spread quickly and took away the Church’s control
20What were the similarities and differences between the Great Plague of 1665 and the Black Death?
Similarities: still believed that miasma caused plague, still used herbs to purify air and prayer was still used
Differences: government was involved (1665), hired officals (1665), infected were seperated (1665) and people were less prepared (1348)
21What did Thomas Sydenham do for medicine?
He introduced the idea of observation in medicine and grouped diseases like animals and plants; his work encouraged students to observe patients for symptoms and look for remedies which laid the foundation for a more scientific based approach