History test (vocabulary)

Superstitions

A belief that certain actions or objects can bring good or back luck

Bleeding and purging

Treatment based on the belief that sickness was caused by having “too much” of something in your body.

Theory of the four humors

Theory stated that illness was cause by an imbalance of the four humors-phlegm, black bile, yellow bile and blood

Trepanning

Cutting a hole into the skull of a living person

Bubonic plague

a serious infectious disease caused by a specific bacterium called Yersinia pestis