Key Terms - History - Week 25-31

Flagellant was a person/s who whipped themselves or someone else for __________________

Religious Reasons.

A cure was something that is supposed to make a sick person_____ ____ ____ _____

Healthy or well.

A prevention is an act that________________________

Stops somethings from happening.

A Plague is a_____ that spreads and ____________

Disease and spreads quickly.

Pneumonic Plague was one of the two types of ______ during the black death and was spread by ____________________

plague and germs in the air.

A boil was a tender, red painful ______ that existed and grew on an infected persons _______

lump & body.

A symptom is a___________

sign of illness.

The bubonic plague was a type of disease that was spread by___

rats.

Flagellant

A person who whips themself and others for religious reasons.

Cure

Something that makes a sick person healthy.

Prevention

An act that stops something from something happening.

Apothecary

A person who prepared and sold medicine.

Humours

black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood.

Quack

Person pretending to have medical knowledge or cures.

Supernatural

above or beyond what is and explained by natural laws.

Wise Woman

Local woman who had knowledge of traditional medicines

Barber surgeon.

A man who performed surgery and dentistry as well as cutting hair.

Bloodletting

The practice of making someone bleed to help cure an illness.

Leech

A blood-sucking creature used in medieval medicine.

Purging

Making someone sick or go to the toilet in the belief that this would cure illness.

Trepanning

drilling a hole in a patients head in the belief that this would cure their headache.

Battle of Agincourt

Famous English victory during the Hundreds Years war.

Stalemate

When neither side is winning a war.

Archer

A soldier who used a bow and arrow as their weapon

Buboes

Tender painful boils which would appear on the body and smell

Black Death

A disease that hit Europe between 1347-1351 killing 1/3 of the population.

Significance

Something that make an impact at the time and continues to make an impact years later.

Plantagenet

Royal house of England 1154 - 1485

Quarrelled

Argue

Faction

What side you are on

Succession

The act or process of following or coming after something or someone else.

Abdicate

Give up the throne

Civil war

War between two sides from the same country.