Post by Mr Modica on Sept 26, 2015 20:25:20 GMT
The Roman Empire fell in 500AD. After the Romans, the early Medieval period was filled with fighting between tribes and all the Roman public health measures disappeared. Gradually, the Christian church took the place of the Roman government, meaning Galen’s ideas were promoted because his work contained ideas on the intelligent design of humans that matched the church. Fighting between tribes also made travelling difficult, so new medical ideas weren’t spread around and a lot of the medical books that had been owned were burnt or unable to be read by the people. The situation did improve in the later Middle Ages and wasn’t as bad in the Muslim world.
Medieval people mostly used herbal remedies to treat people, although they would also investigate the astrology of the patient and consult urine charts. Medieval people believed in miasma – that disease was caused by bad air, and in Galen’s Theory of the Opposites and would treat your excess humours.
Barber surgeons became popular in the Middle Ages. They would cut your hair and perform basic operations on your skin or perform bleeding. They were cheaper than educated doctors. Quacks were also cheaper than trained doctors and would sell their potions at markets.
Public health fell apart in Medieval England. The Roman systems were allowed to fall apart and until the later Middle Ages there were no regulations on what could be thrown in the River Thames and where rotten food and sewage should go.
Medieval hospitals were run by the Christian church and operated in line with Christian teaching. Hospitals weren’t used to treat the sick, as they are today, instead they were used to help people such as the elderly and orphans. They encouraged healing through prayer and so hospitals didn’t take pregnant women or sick people who might disrupt the prayer the patients were doing. Lepers were treated in leper hospitals outside of the city walls. Almshouses grew up to house the elderly. Monasteries also offered hospital care, with medicines mostly being made with the herbs in the garden of the monastery.
In 1348, the Black Death came to England on ships from China and the continent. It killed between a third and a half of the population of Europe. You could get different types of plague, but bubonic plague where boils (or buboes) appear on your skin, and pneumonic plague where plague attacks your lungs, were the most common. We now know that the plague was brought to England by the Oriental Rat Fleas that lived on the ships and in the clothes of the sailors. Medieval people came up with theories of their own about what caused the plague, such as earthquakes, deadly fogs and the poisoning of the water by Jews. As doctors didn’t know what caused the plague, they also couldn’t cure it, but came up with their own treatments such as allowing a frog to suck out the poison from your body. Because England was such a religious country, people called flagellants also travelled around England publically whipping themselves in the hope they would stop the spread of the plague.
Make sure this is just the basis for your revision, using your class notes too!
www.springwoodgcsehistory.blogspot.co.uk/p/medicine-through-time-overview.html
Medieval people mostly used herbal remedies to treat people, although they would also investigate the astrology of the patient and consult urine charts. Medieval people believed in miasma – that disease was caused by bad air, and in Galen’s Theory of the Opposites and would treat your excess humours.
Barber surgeons became popular in the Middle Ages. They would cut your hair and perform basic operations on your skin or perform bleeding. They were cheaper than educated doctors. Quacks were also cheaper than trained doctors and would sell their potions at markets.
Public health fell apart in Medieval England. The Roman systems were allowed to fall apart and until the later Middle Ages there were no regulations on what could be thrown in the River Thames and where rotten food and sewage should go.
Medieval hospitals were run by the Christian church and operated in line with Christian teaching. Hospitals weren’t used to treat the sick, as they are today, instead they were used to help people such as the elderly and orphans. They encouraged healing through prayer and so hospitals didn’t take pregnant women or sick people who might disrupt the prayer the patients were doing. Lepers were treated in leper hospitals outside of the city walls. Almshouses grew up to house the elderly. Monasteries also offered hospital care, with medicines mostly being made with the herbs in the garden of the monastery.
In 1348, the Black Death came to England on ships from China and the continent. It killed between a third and a half of the population of Europe. You could get different types of plague, but bubonic plague where boils (or buboes) appear on your skin, and pneumonic plague where plague attacks your lungs, were the most common. We now know that the plague was brought to England by the Oriental Rat Fleas that lived on the ships and in the clothes of the sailors. Medieval people came up with theories of their own about what caused the plague, such as earthquakes, deadly fogs and the poisoning of the water by Jews. As doctors didn’t know what caused the plague, they also couldn’t cure it, but came up with their own treatments such as allowing a frog to suck out the poison from your body. Because England was such a religious country, people called flagellants also travelled around England publically whipping themselves in the hope they would stop the spread of the plague.
Make sure this is just the basis for your revision, using your class notes too!
www.springwoodgcsehistory.blogspot.co.uk/p/medicine-through-time-overview.html