Four bodily fluids - Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Blood and Phlegm
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What were the Four Humours used for?
To be analysed to describe a person's state of health
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What was the Miasma Theory?
Diseases were caused by the presence in the air of a miasma, a poisonous vapour in which were suspended particles of decaying matter that was characterised by its foul smell.
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What was believed to cause disease?
Demons, Sin, Astrology and the Stars, the Jewish and Stagnant Water
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What did the Catholic church encourage the sick to do?
Go on crusades to the Middle East
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Card 2
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What were the Four Humours used for?
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To be analysed to describe a person's state of health
Card 3
Front
What was the Miasma Theory?
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Card 4
Front
What was believed to cause disease?
Back
Card 5
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What did the Catholic church encourage the sick to do?
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