Medicine through time - Keywords

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  • Created on: 07-03-18 19:37
Bloodletting
The drawing of blood from a patient by a doctor
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Dissection
Cutting open a body to examine its eternal structure
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Four humours
A theory that developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness due to an imbalance of blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile in the body
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Latrine
Something used as a communal toilet (individual latrines were called privies).
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Medieval
A name for the "Middle Ages", the period between the Ancient World (which ended when the Romans left Britain)
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Physician
A trained doctor
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Public health
The standard of living conditions and general health of the people
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Purging
Getting rid of bad or excess Humours, by making someone sick, by making them have diarrhoea .
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Society
The way a group of people links together in some common ways
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Supernatural
Forces outside nature that some people believe can affect events eg, God charms and luck, witchcraft and astrology
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Surgeon
Someone who deals with wounds or with treatment that involves cutting the body
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Cutting open a body to examine its eternal structure

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A theory that developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness due to an imbalance of blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile in the body

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Something used as a communal toilet (individual latrines were called privies).

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A name for the "Middle Ages", the period between the Ancient World (which ended when the Romans left Britain)

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