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6. What treatment would be used if a person had too much blood?

  • Purifying the air
  • Bloodletting
  • Purging
  • Repentance

7. How was the bubonic plague spread?

  • Bites of fleas
  • Airbourne
  • Unhygienic equipment
  • Human contact

8. What did King Edward III do in 1349?

  • Move abroad
  • Catch the plague
  • Close Parliament
  • Lock himself away

9. Who ran the hospitals?

  • Monasteries
  • Physicians
  • Women
  • Quacks

10. What were people encouraged to do when ill?

  • Dance
  • Pray
  • Sing
  • Laugh

11. What did the theory of Miasma prompt people to do?

  • Clean the streets
  • Sniff people
  • Stop breathing
  • Burn bodies

12. What fraction of the population died from the Black Death?

  • 1/5
  • 1/2
  • 1/3
  • 1/4

13. What had a large influence on medicine?

  • Galen
  • Hippocrates
  • The Church
  • Miasma

14. Who had to train at a university?

  • Physician
  • Monk
  • Apothecary
  • Barber

15. What did many people believe about disease?

  • There was no cause for it
  • It was untreatable
  • It was a punishment from God
  • It was caused by the supernatural

16. What did the people of Winchester insist during the Black Death?

  • Theatres were closed
  • New cemeteries were built outside the town
  • People were quarantined
  • Everything was burnt

17. What year did the Black Death arrive in Britain?

  • 1347
  • 1348
  • 1349
  • 1345

18. Who created the theory of the Four Humours?

  • Hippocrates
  • Chadwick
  • Galen
  • Harvey