Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medieval England c.1250-1500
- Treatments
- Religous actions
- Praying- Asking God
to forgive the sin
which they are being
punished for
- Pilgrimage- prove true
devotion to god
- Four Humours
- Phlebotomy- blood letting by
cutting a vein and draining blood
to rebalence
- Zodiac charts- allowed doctors to
work out when was best to
perform surgery
- Apothecaries- made medicines
and remedies for people and
physicians
- Emetic- substance to make
people sick
- Enema- name of
common laxative
- Herbal remedies- home made
medicines
- Theriaca- common spice
remedy
- Hospital care
- Would not admit ill people
as fear of causing infection
- Offered food and warmth
- Cared for 'Poor and
silly' persons
- Looked after people who were
already getting better
- Treatment and Care
in the community
- Women- could only become
midwifes or surgeons but
not physicians
- Treated most illnesses
- Physicians- trained in University for 7 years
- Surgeons- trained as apprenices
- Barber surgeons- the local barber
would also carry out surgeries on
people
- Preventions
- Religious Actions
- Praying- asking
God to forgive
sins that they
may be punished
for
- Pilgrimage- prove a
persons true devotion
to god
- Keep Towns and Cities clean
- Laws to punish people for dumping rubbish and
other waste in the street. People would have to pay
fines or other forms of punishments
- The Sanitary Refoms
- Causes
- The four Humours
- Ancient Greek physician
Hippocrates
- observed symptoms and
recorded them
- supported by Galen who
created the theory of
opposites to rebalence
the humours
- Famous Roman doctor. Started
out as a gladiator surgeon.
- Blood; black bile; yellow bile and phlegm
- If your body contained
too much of any of the
4 humours you would
become ill
- God
- In medieval times people
believed that God was the main
cause of disease
- For many people the church was
their only education so they would
not ever be questioned
- Rid you of sin
- Punishment that would make
you a better person
- Astrology
- Believed to be one of the
largest contributing factors to
disease
- Physicians would consult
star charts to work out what
was wrong
- If the planets were badly
aligned it would cause
certain ailments
- Miasma
- Bad smells that supposedly
caused disease
- Case study: The Black Death 1348-49
- Information
- Arrived from China
via India and Europe
- New plague- British
Doctors did not know
how to treat it
- 40% of the British
population
- Probably Bubonic plague
spread by infected fleas
- It was a pandemic but
we say it was an
epidemic in England
- Pandemic-
widespread
epidemic which
may affect a
continent or the
world
- Epidemic- a
widespread
occurrence of an
infectious disease
in a community at
a particular time
- contemporary people called it
a 'Pestilence'
- Symptoms
- Shivering
- Red rings appear on skins
- Coughing up blood
- Eyes hurt
- Diahorea
- Hullocinations
- Skin turned black
- Buboes
- Died within 7 days
- Causes
- God
- Miasma
- The Planets
- Four Humours
- Treatments/Prevention
- Religious Actions
- Religious Services/ Processions everyday
- Lighting Candles
- Fasting
- Pilgramages to tombs of
saints
- Stop wrestling matches in
churchyards
- Public punishment e.g the
flagellants whipping themselves in
the streets
- Begging for forgiveness in public
- Praying
- Miasma
- Cleanse the City
- Carry sweet smelling herbs
- Light Fires
- Ringing bells
- Keeping birds to fly
around the house
- Rakers to remove animal
manure from the streets
- Fines for throwing rubbish
- The Planets
- Consult star charts
- Linked to God
- Stars and planets
affected peoples bodies
- Four Humours
- Rich consult trained Physicians
- Taking laxatives and
other Humour
balancing remedies