Public Health during Medieval Times
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- Created on: 04-02-16 10:57
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- Public Health during Medieval times
- Christianity
- God made people ill because he was displeased with them or was testing their faith
- The Church taught people to follow Jesus' example and care for the sick
- Many saints were related to certain illnesses, so people prayed to the saint they thought could help them.
- The Church discouraged dissection and did not approve of people challenging ideas and authority.
- Only ideas approved by the Church were taught
- Galen's theories fitted Christian beliefs that the body has a soul and all parts had been created by God to work together
- Hospitals and Doctors
- Hospitals mainly cared for the sick rather than cured them and were run by religious orders.
- Hospitals were built for specific illnesses.
- Almshouses were built dor 'deserving' poor and elderly
- Medical Training happened in Monastries, where medical texts were kept.
- When the Romans left, the number of doctors declined, as did the quality of health care.
- Hospitals mainly cared for the sick rather than cured them and were run by religious orders.
- The Black Death
- Symptoms
- Fevers and chills
- Headache
- Vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain
- Buboes
- Cures
- Praying/ Fasting
- Cleaning the streets
- Smelling bad smells
- Carrying herbs/having birds fly around to avoid bad air
- Not letting unknown people into the town or village
- Causes
- Outsiders
- Religion
- Astrology
- Miasma
- Volcanoes
- 4 Humours
- Symptoms
- Treating the sick in 1350
- Physicians
- Expensive
- Very few of them
- Diagnosed illnesses
- Trained at university
- Barber Surgeons
- No training
- Cheap
- Amputations
- Monks/Nuns
- Free
- Treated the poor and elderly, using Church donations
- Apothecaries
- No qualifications
- Cheap
- Mixed own Medicines
- Housewife Physicians
- Childbirth/ common ilnesses
- Cheapest and most accessible
- Herb and plant remedies
- Lucky charms /pilgrimmages
- Urine/zodiac charts
- Physicians
- Christianity
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