Glossary - Medicine Through Time

Glossary - Medieval Medicine - c1250 to c1500

• Pandemic - wide spread of disease
• Royal Charter - a document from the monarch granting a right or power to a particular group/person (shows that the monarch is supportive of the particular project.)
• Malnutrition - Lack of proper nutrition
• Physician - someone who practices medicine
• Scourge - a person or thing that causes great suffering
• Quarantine - seperating the sick from the healthy to stop the spread of disease
• Miasma - 'bad' air that c was said to have caused sickness
• Penence - a punishment inflicted on yourself to show that you are sorry for your sins
• Flagellants - an extreme  religous group in the medieval period. they would self-harm to show their faith
• Primary Souce - a source from the time being studied 
• Secondary Source - a source about the time being studied
• Pestulence - a big spred of disease
• Secular - non-reglious or not in anyway connected to spiritual beliefs
• Alchemy - early form of chemistry. Tried to turn one material into another. mostly just trying to create gold
• Humanism - belief that humans could make up their own minds when it came to discovering the truth of the…