MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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- Created on: 07-04-13 18:05
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- MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- Problems
- MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- Treatment
- Problems
- Problems
- Diet
- They did not eat enough red meat to have a high resistance to disease
- Work
- Housing
- People lived in bad conditions which meant people died of common diseases
- Fighting
- Plague
- Muslim medicine
- There were many hospitals as it is in the Muslim faith to care for those in need
- They learned about medicine from the people they conquered & read books
- They were treated both naturally & supernaturally - examination & prayer
- London
- Conditions were awful and unhygienic
- Doctors
- They used purging, leeches, and checked a zodiac chart to select a safe date to operate on
- Hospitals
- Hospitals were originally Christian and set up to follow Jesus' example
- Black Death
- London
- Conditions were awful and unhygienic
- People thought it was caused by God and miasma
- London
- There were no real treatments except herbal remedies & people died from things such as cuts
- Treatment
- Treatment
- They did not eat enough red meat to have a high resistance to disease
- People lived in bad conditions which meant people died of common diseases
- Joint pain and infections were common due to the hard labour
- Work
- Work
- People and animals fighting was common which increased wounds
- Fighting
- Fighting
- Plague could kill livestock which meant less food and clothing
- Plague
- Plague
- They learned about medicine from the people they conquered & read books
- There were many hospitals as it is in the Muslim faith to care for those in need
- They were treated both naturally & supernaturally - examination & prayer
- Used the Theory of the Four Humours but apart from that did not know much. Mostly, surgeons were not very well trained
- Doctors
- They used purging, leeches, and checked a zodiac chart to select a safe date to operate on
- Doctors
- Hospitals were originally Christian and set up to follow Jesus' example
- The seriously ill were not allowed in because they needed too much attention but the poor and slightly ill were
- Leper houses, almshouses and monasteries also looked after the siick but their treatments were mostly supernatural
- Bubonic & Pneumonic plague
- People thought it was caused by God and miasma
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