HISTORY-edexcel-MIB-c1250-c1500- MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

Reasons the Church controlled medieval medical ideas

Ran universities, held book collections, restricted literacy to clergy, and taught only approved texts like Galen's.

Role of monasteries in medieval medicine

Housed libraries, preserved literacy, and conducted rare, limited dissections.

what are the four humours

yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm

what was the theory of the four humours

one gets ill when the mix of the four humours are imbalanced, to make them better they need to re-balance their humours via bleeding or purging

what where the four ways the sick where treated?

barber surgeons, physicians, apothecaries and wise women

Reasons the Church controlled medieval medical ideas

Ran universities, held book collections, restricted literacy to clergy, and taught only approved texts like Galen's.

describe apothecaries

received traing but had no real medical qualifications.they mixed medicines and herbs upon their own knowledge or directions by a physician. they cost money but less than a physician.

describe barber-surgeons

no medical training. the carried out blood letting, pulled teeth, lanced boils, and cut hair. they did basic surgeries such as amputating a limb(very low success rate). they cost less than a physician.

describe wise-women.

treated people at home, had knowledge passed down through generations.

describe [hysicians