Medieval Britain
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- Medieval Britain
- church
- religion preserved Galen's ideas as it didn't go against the church
- they set up universities for the training of doctors in Galen's ideas
- but the church was in control preventing any new knowledge for medical development
- care not cure
- illness is a punishment for your sins
- religion preserved Galen's ideas as it didn't go against the church
- Public Health
- it all decreased
- romans left to go to war taking their knowledge and army with them
- public services went into disrepair as war destroyed them and medical libraries
- made new baths but these were made out of wood which rotted and were rarely changed
- no army to collect taxes
- animals slaughtered in the streets
- stream of poo as people had chamber pots and flung the contents out the window and into the streets
- some people had cesspits dug
- money went on the war rather than medical development
- travel was dangerous so communication slowed and knowledge wasn't spread
- but there were more laws
- it all decreased
- other
- diagnosis by urine sample
- human dissection allowed there were some who doubted but nothing was changed
- diagnosis from the stars (astrology)
- The black death - 1348
- spread by coughs and sneezes or black rat flea bites
- Symptoms: headache then chills and a fever some suffered vomiting and nausa, pain. Hard painful swellings appeared after a day or two as they grew they began to ooze pus and blood. the victim would then start to bleed internally ...
- ...Black boils and spots would appear over the body as blood pooled beneath the skin. and death would occur about one week after contracting the plague
- the causes that were thought
- humours out of balence
- gods punishment
- poisened water by the jews
- miasma - bad air/smells
- church
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