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what are the four humours
- black bile
- yellow bile
- blood
- phlegm
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how is miasma linked to causing diease
miasma is bad air which caused disease
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who came up with the theory of the four humours
Hippocrates
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what is the theory of the opposites and who created it
diseased was caused by unbalanced humours and you have to cure it with the opposit
- Galen
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what were the ideas of cause of disease in the Middle Ages
- four humours
- miasma
- punishment from God
- supernatural
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how did people think religion treated diseases
- healing prayers
- praying for mass
- fasting
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how did people think four humours treated diseases
- blood letting
- cupping
- leeching
- purging
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what are treatments of disease from Middle Ages
- religion
- herbal remedies
- four humours
- supernatural
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how did people think they could prevent diseases
- whipping themselves
- fasting
- asking God for forgiveness
- carrying herbs
- following regimin sanitis
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who treated the sick in the Middle Ages
- wise women
- apothecaries
- physicians
- barber surgeon
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when did the Black death arrive in England
in 1348
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symptoms of the Black Death
- high fever
- severe headaches
- vomiting
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what did people think caused the black death
- punishment from God
- movements of the planets
- miasma
- Jews
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what was the actually cause of the Black death
fleas bit rats which infected rats and rats passed disease on to other people
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what are treatments of the black death
- rubbing onions and herbs on boils
- drinking vinegar
- praying to God
- popping buboes
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how did the Church affect progress in Britain
- the Church dominated people who feared God
- the Church said who challenged the Church will go to hell
- Church trained physicians
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how did Hippocrates and Galen affect progress in Britain
- Galen wrote over 300 medical books and doctors believed everything
- the Theory of the Four humours worked for medieval doctors
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what factors limited the progress in diseases in the Middle Ages
- the Church
- Hippocrates and Galen
- Traditions
- the King and governments
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