Apothecaries, burning herbs, bloodletting and purging.
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Why did they burn herbs?
To create sweet smells to get rid of miasma.
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What were the 3 supernatural approaches to treatments?
Praying, flagellation and astrology.
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What was flagellation?
Whipping to show God they were sorry for there sins.
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Who was Hippocrates and when was he born?
He was a Greek doctor and born around 460BC.
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What was Hippocrates main ideas?
To observe patients and work out what was wrong with them.
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What was Hippocrates main theory and what was it?
The Theory of the Four Humours and it was to believe the body was made up of four basic elements and when these were out of balance the person became ill.
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What did Galen encourage and why was it bad too?
Dissection and it was illegal.
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What did Galen do with his observations?
He wrote books and these were widely used in later years.
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Who and what were Hippocrates and Galens books translated by/to?
Doctors like Al-Razi and into Arabic.
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Who started to challenge Hippocrates and Galen's ideas?
Islamic doctors such as Ibn al-Nafis.
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What was Islamic medicine the first to have and the system in it?
Pharmacies and weighing and measuring ingredients in medicine.
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How did medieval Muslim medicine reach Britain?
Via European doctors coming home from the Crusades.
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What did the church set up and run?
New hospitals
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What did the church encourage and why?
They encouraged wars to put European doctors in touch with Muslim doctors who were much more skilled and knowledgeable.
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What did the church teach?
Disease was a punishment from God for a sin and people were told to rely on prayers for cures.
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What did the church forbid?
Dissection
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What did the Church insist in believing even after proven wrong?
The work of Galen.
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What caused loss of money which could've been spent on public health?
Wars such as the Crusades.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Why did they burn herbs?
Back
To create sweet smells to get rid of miasma.
Card 3
Front
What were the 3 supernatural approaches to treatments?
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