medicine REVISION
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- Created on: 29-05-18 13:07
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- medieval medicine REVISION
- key people
- Galen
- theory of opposites
- e.g treat a cold with a hot bath
- believed the blood was CONSUMED
- made many mistake as he only dissected animals!!!
- theory of opposites
- Hippocrates
- theory of 4 humours
- e.g if someone had a runny nose = too much phlegm!
- blood, Phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
- theory of 4 humours
- Galen
- preventing disease
- good diet
- purging
- purifying the air by carrying strong herbs
- cleaning
- prayer
- regimen sanitatis - advising to live a healthy lifestyle
- treatment of disease
- religion
- saying prayers
- touching holy relics
- going on pilgrimage
- Balancing the 4 humours
- purging
- blood letting
- zodiac
- consulting star signs
- theory of opposites
- e.g treat a cold with a hot bath
- religion
- causes of disease
- miasma
- suupernatural
- sin
- 4 humours
- case study
- THE BLACK DEATH 1348
- 1st in China -> india _> europe -> England
- 2 types!!
- bubpnic plague - carried by rats & very common!
- Pheumonic plague - DEADLY & caused by infected germs
- idea of cause = miasma, God
- Prevention
- rub onions on buboes
- drink vinegar
- bleeding + purging
- Treatment
- pray
- carry posies
- physicians would test urine and pop Buboes
- THE BLACK DEATH 1348
- Hospital care
- run by trained monks + nuns
- no doctors, ONLY PRRIESTS
- ONLY CARE FOR!! - didn't cure
- recovery = pray for forgiveness
- Spiritual support, not medical support!
- Females patients must be over 50yrs - don't distract
- run by trained monks + nuns
- key people
- Treatment
- pray
- carry posies
- physicians would test urine and pop Buboes
- 1250 - 1500
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