Medieval medicine
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- Medieval medicine
- Background info
- War
- destroyed Roman public health systems and medical libraries
- made small kingdoms focus on armies instead of health and medical skills
- Disrupted trade- made people poorer
- Travel
- more dangerous- reduces comm. between doctors
- Training of doctors
- Training abandoned
- Galen's books lost/ hidden for safety
- ROME COLLAPSES
- LATER
- Medieval medicine
- Background info
- War
- destroyed Roman public health systems and medical libraries
- made small kingdoms focus on armies instead of health and medical skills
- Disrupted trade- made people poorer
- Travel
- more dangerous- reduces comm. between doctors
- Training of doctors
- Training abandoned
- Galen's books lost/ hidden for safety
- ROME COLLAPSES
- LATER
- Catholic Church set up universities- where doctors can be trained
- Armies took doctors to war- gained exp as surgeon
- Rulers were taken to clean up towns
- War
- Influence of the Catholic Church
- Christianity grew stronger in the Middle Ages
- Monasteries controlled education. Priests and monks can only read.
- Opened medical schools- taught ideas of Galen
- Libraries only found in monasteries- unwanted books banned
- Monasteries made efforts to provide clean running water and toilets.
- Medieval hostpitals
- mostly set up by monasteries and ran by monks and priests
- provided "hospitality"
- Genuinely ill people turned away in fears of disease spreads
- Genuinely ill people turned away in fears of disease spreads
- Return of Hippocrates and Galen
- Galen's work
- rediscovered and analysed by church leaders
- fitted to Christian beliefs- referred to "the creator"
- believed to be correct- cannot be improvised
- had great influence to Arab and European
- rediscovered and analysed by church leaders
- Hippocrates
- Medical schools appear- first in Salerno, Italy.
- Translations of Galen and Hippocrates' works used and taught as absolute truth.
- Galen's work
- rediscovered and analysed by church leaders
- fitted to Christian beliefs- referred to "the creator"
- believed to be correct- cannot be improvised
- had great influence to Arab and European
- rediscovered and analysed by church leaders
- Galen's work
- Translations of Galen and Hippocrates' works used and taught as absolute truth.
- Medical schools appear- first in Salerno, Italy.
- Galen's work
- Arab medicine
- Greek ideas were admired and was the basis of development by Islamic scholars
- Hippocrates' four humours and clinical observation as well as Galen's theory of opposite humours lived on
- Hippocrates and Galen's works were written together- these got back to Europe
- Muslim attitude to the Koran- unwilling to criticise Galen's work.
- 4 Humour Theory
- Idea still carried on
- developed into more complex system- based on position of stars
- Human dissections carried out at medical schools
- findings were interpreted as the theory of 4 humours
- later led to some doctors to question theory
- New developments
- more schools
- some doubts to classical texts
- DISSECTION allowed
- more schools
- some doubts to classical texts
- DISSECTION allowed
- DISSECTION allowed
- some doubts to classical texts
- more schools
- DISSECTION allowed
- some doubts to classical texts
- new diagnosis techniques developed
- urine sample tests
- stars also believed to be cause of disease
- astrology used to decide on treatments
- Trained doctors very expensive
- Most medicines done provided by monasteries and housewife physicians
- basic cures and exp used
- more schools
- Supernatural beliefs and treatments
- illness was a punishment for sins
- Prayed to God if ill
- Pilgrimages could cure illness
- Doctors superstitious- referred to stars and spoke magical words during treatments
- illness was a punishment for sins
- Surgical developments
- High demand for surgery
- War rampant
- wine- first antiseptic
- very low standard of surgery
- left to untrained barber surgeons
- Surgery still simple
- major surgery still risky
- High demand for surgery
- Public Health Measures
- towns lacked were poor in public health compared to the Romans
- people relied on cesspits and wells
- waste often disposed onto street
- People drank more beer than water- less contaminated
- The Black Death- 1348
- Spread by
- black rat flea bites
- coughs and sneezes
- Arrived in Britain- 1348
- victims keeled over and died in a few days
- high temp, exhaustion, swellings and difficulty breathing
- Ships quarantined
- 40 days
- How the plague was treated
- Miasma
- fragrances used to blocked bad smalls
- God
- prayed
- became flagellants- suffer same as Jesus did
- Unbalanced humours
- used opposites
- Poisoned water
- blame the Jews
- Miasma
- Spread by
- Background info
- Catholic Church set up universities- where doctors can be trained
- Armies took doctors to war- gained exp as surgeon
- Rulers were taken to clean up towns
- Medieval medicine
- War
- Influence of the Catholic Church
- Christianity grew stronger in the Middle Ages
- Monasteries controlled education. Priests and monks can only read.
- Opened medical schools- taught ideas of Galen
- Libraries only found in monasteries- unwanted books banned
- Monasteries made efforts to provide clean running water and toilets.
- Medieval hostpitals
- mostly set up by monasteries and ran by monks and priests
- provided "hospitality"
- Return of Hippocrates and Galen
- Hippocrates
- Medical schools appear- first in Salerno, Italy.
- Translations of Galen and Hippocrates' works used and taught as absolute truth.
- Translations of Galen and Hippocrates' works used and taught as absolute truth.
- Medical schools appear- first in Salerno, Italy.
- Hippocrates
- Arab medicine
- Greek ideas were admired and was the basis of development by Islamic scholars
- Hippocrates' four humours and clinical observation as well as Galen's theory of opposite humours lived on
- Hippocrates and Galen's works were written together- these got back to Europe
- Muslim attitude to the Koran- unwilling to criticise Galen's work.
- 4 Humour Theory
- Idea still carried on
- developed into more complex system- based on position of stars
- Human dissections carried out at medical schools
- findings were interpreted as the theory of 4 humours
- later led to some doctors to question theory
- New developments
- new diagnosis techniques developed
- urine sample tests
- stars also believed to be cause of disease
- astrology used to decide on treatments
- Trained doctors very expensive
- Most medicines done provided by monasteries and housewife physicians
- basic cures and exp used
- new diagnosis techniques developed
- Supernatural beliefs and treatments
- illness was a punishment for sins
- Prayed to God if ill
- Pilgrimages could cure illness
- Doctors superstitious- referred to stars and spoke magical words during treatments
- illness was a punishment for sins
- Surgical developments
- High demand for surgery
- War rampant
- wine- first antiseptic
- very low standard of surgery
- left to untrained barber surgeons
- Surgery still simple
- major surgery still risky
- High demand for surgery
- Public Health Measures
- towns lacked were poor in public health compared to the Romans
- people relied on cesspits and wells
- waste often disposed onto street
- People drank more beer than water- less contaminated
- The Black Death- 1348
- Spread by
- black rat flea bites
- coughs and sneezes
- Arrived in Britain- 1348
- victims keeled over and died in a few days
- high temp, exhaustion, swellings and difficulty breathing
- Ships quarantined
- 40 days
- How the plague was treated
- Miasma
- fragrances used to blocked bad smalls
- God
- prayed
- became flagellants- suffer same as Jesus did
- Unbalanced humours
- used opposites
- Poisoned water
- blame the Jews
- Miasma
- Spread by
- Background info
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