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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?
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?
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?
18. Who created the theory of the Four Humours?
- Hippocrates
- Chadwick
- Galen
- Harvey