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20 Cards in this Set
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What was thought to have caused disease? (4) |
- Punishment from God - Demons and witches - Evil spirits - Astrology |
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What is the Four Humours Theory and who made it? |
- It was the theory that the body was made up of four fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) that needed to be balanced for you to be healthy - It was made by Hippocrates Extra info: Galen expanded on this idea and believed you could be treated with 'opposites'. |
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Who was Hippocrates? Why was he important? |
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What is the miasma theory? How was it prevented |
The belief of 'bad air' causing diseases Fire was burnt in the street, people carried posies with them |
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How did people deal with disease? (4) |
- Pray to God - Execute those thought to be witches - Purifying the air - Natural remedies
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What are some factors that influence medicine in the 19th century? |
- The Industrial Revolution - Developments in science and tech - Change in government's attitudes towards its role in every day lives |
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How did professionals deal with disease? |
- Bloodletting (Making cuts or using leeches to remove blood) - Purging (Give someone laxatives) - Surgery by barber surgeons - Natural remedies by the apothecary |
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What kind of treatment did the poorer people receive? |
Treatments from the apothecaries, or the 'wise women' |
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What kind of treatment did the richer people receive? |
Diagnoses from physicians |
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Why wasn't surgery performed often? (2) |
- There was no way to prevent infection, blood loss and pain, so it was used for minor procedures - There weren't many barber surgeons about |
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What was the purpose of hospitals? |
To care for the sick, rather than cure them |
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Why were most people treated at home instead of the hospital? |
There weren't many about |
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Who was Galen? Why was he important? |
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Why did Galen get a lot of his work wrong? |
He only dissected animals as human dissection wasn't allowed |
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What are some examples of Galen's incorrect work and their corrections? |
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What was an apothecary? |
A place where remedies were prepared and sold |
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What was the Black Death |
A series of plagues that came to Europe in the mid 14th centry |
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What illnesses were involved in the Black Death? What did they cause? How were they spread? |
Bubonic plague - headaches and high temperature, pus-filled swelling on skin. Spread by fleas and rats Pneumonic plague - attacks lungs, painful to breath, coughing up blood. Spread airborne |
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How much of the population died due to the Black Death? |
Atleast a third |
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How did the government try to stop the spread of the Black Death? |
- Closing off towns - |
