Medieval Medicine
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- Medieval Medicine
- Medieval Doctor
- used plants for medicine, tested wee, used leeches to **** out blood and purging
- The 4 humours are: Phlegm, Blood Black Bile and Yellow Bile
- Ordinary people turned to priests, wise old ladies and barber surgeons. Knowledge was spread by word of mouth.
- Doctors trained for 7 years at Oxford or Cambridge by debates and lectures. Studied Hippoctares and Galen
- Hippocrates and Galen
- Hippocrates: introduced the 4 humour.
- Galen: developed Hippocrates' theories. Though that human and animal bodies were the same
- Christian Influence
- Most people were Christians so their influence was powerful. new researchers were imprisoned and dissection was banned.
- Miasma is the belief that bad health is linked with bad air
- Hospitals were centres of rest and depended on charity. they were run by monks and patients were encouraged to pray.
- Helped progress: set hospitals and taught the ideas of the Greeks and Romans.
- Hindered Progress: to challenge was going against god and they controlled universities.
- Islam
- AL RAZI(865-925): stressed the need observation, distinguished measles from small pox, believed students should improve on the works of their teachers
- IBN SINA(980-1037): wrote an encyclopedia of medicine which listed properties of 760 different drugs which contained chapters on anorexia
- Pilgramiges
- They were encouraged by the church as they believed praying at them would cure them.
- Sugery
- Public Health
- The Black Death
- Medieval Treatments and Preventions
- Treatments: religious, astrological, blood letting, purging, herbal remedies, female carers, bathing, amulates and charms, praying, humeral, diet
- Medieval Doctor
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