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- 1'The Four Humours'To prevent yourself from disease and illness you had to keep the four humours of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile in balance.
- 2HippocratesBorn in 406 BC, Hippocrates was the first physician to treat and regard the body as a whole. He based his thinking and writing around the theory of the four humours.
- 3GalenBorn in A.D 130, Galen studied medicine in Egypt. His ideas of medicine became accepted in Europe as fact during the middle ages.
- 4MiasmaAn unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour.
- 5Miasma TheoryThis theory argues that diseases such as cholera or Black Death were caused by a noxious form of 'bad air'
- 6BloodlettingA common form of treatment regarding disease or illness, involving the withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease.
- 7Zodiac ChartsCharts that would indicate which parts of the body are linked to an astrological sign, and then propose a cure.
- 8AlchemyThis was a form of chemistry and questionable philosophy practised during the Middle Ages, concerned with finding an 'Elixir for Life'.
- 9SoothsayersThe local 'wise women' who built up knowledge over generations of how treat disease and illness.
- 10Barber-surgeonThese were medical practitioners during the medieval era.
- 11ApothecaryGenerally, monks who prepared and sold medicines and herbal remedies to the sick.
- 12LeechesThey are a type of worm that act to suck blood from the body; natural form of bloodletting.
- 13Leper hospitalsLeper hospitals were built on the outskirts of the town and provided lodging and food for those with leprosy.
- 14AlmshousesSheltered accommodation and basic nursing for travellers and the poor.
- 15LatrineA toilet that is communal.
- 16'The Black Death'A widespread epidemic of bubonic plague that occurred in several outbreaks between 1347 and 1400.
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