Britain, health and the people
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- Britain: Health and the people (medicine)
- Medical Progress
- Avicenna wrote the Canon of Medicine which became a standard European medical textbook.
- Muslim medical scholars, like Rhazes and Ibn al- Nafis, were critical of some ancient learning.
- Dissection for learning was banned.
- Medicine in the Middle Ages
- People didn't know what caused illness so they blamed it on: Punishment from God, Miasma (bad smells) or astrology (movement of planets.
- Different types of medical people.
- Barber Surgeons, did amputations, blood letting and dentistry.
- University trained doctors, this was controlled by the church so only the theories of Galen and Hippocrates were taught. therefore dissection was not allowed.
- Apothercarie-s, used a mix of herbal remedies.
- Wise- women, used a mix of natural remedies to cure illnesses.
- Common treatment for illnesses.
- Purging (bloodletting)
- Giving you something to make you vomit or go to the toilet.
- The Four Humours
- Medieval doctors based cures on the Ancient Greek theory of the 'balance of the four humours'
- Yellow Bile
- Black Bile
- Blood
- Phlegm
- Medical Progress
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