Medicine during the Medieval Period (1066-1450)
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- Medicine during the Medieval Period (1066-1450)
- Science of bacteria and disease was uneducated to medieval society
- Lack of bacterial knowledge
- Focused on attempting to cure symptoms instead
- Practitioners followed Hippocrates
- Death population increased
- Lack of scientific knowledge and technology to understand germs and infections
- Death population increased
- Practitioners followed Hippocrates
- Focused on attempting to cure symptoms instead
- Lack of scientific knowledge and technology to understand germs and infections
- Widespread of dysentery, typhoid, smallpox and measles
- Lack of bacterial knowledge
- Dominance of the Church
- Ways it hindered medicine
- Played and important part in providing hospitals
- Mixed all patients regardless of symtoms
- Believed God sent disease as punishment for their sins
- The best cure was to repent their sins through praying or flagellation
- Monopolised publication of books and knowledge
- Disallowed dissection
- Monopolised publication of books and knowledge
- The best cure was to repent their sins through praying or flagellation
- Played and important part in providing hospitals
- Ways it helped Medicine
- Gave rest food and warmth
- Opened schools and Universities which educated and trained physicians
- Monks had extensive herbal knowledge
- Opened schools and Universities which educated and trained physicians
- Gave rest food and warmth
- Ways it hindered medicine
- Wealth
- Only the wealthy could afford medical care
- Majority of the higher class lived close to towns rather than villages
- Capable to transport to medical practitioners
- Medieval individuals misused soap and were unable to wash themselves with clean water
- Capable to transport to medical practitioners
- Majority of the higher class lived close to towns rather than villages
- The poor had higher chances of surviving
- Peasants lived in primarily small villages away from towns (packed with major parts of deadly illnesses)
- Medieval individuals misused soap and were unable to wash themselves with clean water
- Peasants lived in primarily small villages away from towns (packed with major parts of deadly illnesses)
- Only the wealthy could afford medical care
- Key Individuals
- Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek physician known as the 'Father of Medicine'
- Developed Theory of the 4 humours which must be balanced
- Hippocratic Oath
- Taught the importance of clinical observation
- Significant step away from supernatural medicine
- His ideas lasted until the 1800
- Ancient Greek physician known as the 'Father of Medicine'
- Galen
- Roman army physician who learnt about human anatomy by dissecting animals
- Developed on Hippocrates's work
- Theory of the Opposites
- Developed on Hippocrates's work
- Roman army physician who learnt about human anatomy by dissecting animals
- Hippocrates
- Beliefs about Causes and Treatments
- Causes
- Jews poisoned the wells
- Planets shifting
- God is angry with humanity
- Jews poisoned the wells
- Treatments
- Herbal remedies
- Urine Charts
- Sweet smelling substances
- Flagellation and Prayer
- Herbal remedies
- Causes
- The Black Death (1348-1349)
- Estimated it killed 50-60% of the European population
- Bubonic Plague
- Septicemic Plague
- Pneumonic Plague
- Yersinia pestis carried by rats and transmitted to humans through the bite of a flea
- Estimated it killed 50-60% of the European population
- Science of bacteria and disease was uneducated to medieval society
- Plants had little moisture to survive in harsh environments
- Individuals were more susceptible to catch diseases
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