Medieval medicine
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- Created on: 19-03-19 18:05
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- Medieval Medicine C.1250-C.1500
- Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
- Supernatural explanations
- Astrology: The alignment of the stars and planets was used in diagnosing illness.
- Star charts would be consulted to help provide a diagnosis
- Religious explanations
- The church taught that illness was a punishment from God for sins.
- When people recovered, the church claimed it was because of their prayers
- The church also taught that disease was from God
- Theory of the four Humours
- This theory was developed by Hippocrates and continued to influence ideas in Medieval England
- The Four Humours are yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm
- It was believed an imbalance of Humours made you ill and balanced Humours meant good health
- Miasma theory
- Miasma was bad air that was believed to be harmful. It was believed it contained smoke and poisonous gases that made people ill
- Medieval beliefs suggested that any rotting matter caused diseases
- Supernatural explanations
- Approaches to prevention and treatment
- Supernatural and religious ideas
- Healing prayers
- Fasting
- Lighting candles in church
- Flagellation
- Pilgrimages
- Star charts prescribed treatments
- Rational ideas
- Bloodletting
- Purging
- Herbal remedies
- Instructions from regimen sanitatis were used for prevention
- Supernatural and religious ideas
- Case Study: The Black Death
- Beliefs about the causes
- God had sent the disease
- Unusual alignment of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in 1345
- An imbalance of the Four Humours
- Miasma from a volcano or earthquake
- Approaches to treatment
- People prayed, confessed sins and asked for God's forgiveness
- Holy charms were worn
- Bleeding and purging based on the Theory of Opposites
- A victim would sniff strong herbs
- Many victims would replace the bad air inside them with smoke from a fire
- Victims would lance their buboes to release pus
- Beliefs about the causes
- Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
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