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Medicine, Middle Ages (Hospitals (Patients (Had 12 patients to represent…
Medicine, Middle Ages
Hospitals
Purpose
Guest houses, part of monastery/convert offering hospitality to travellers
Aimed to care/ comfort (70% did) for patients but not to cure, not effective
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Funding
Church provided them, normally would be in a church
Endowments (wealthy person left money for setting up a hospital, would do this because church taught that charitable denotations could help heal disease)
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Treatments
Fresh food (fish+meat+fruit), water, praying
Patients
Had 12 patients to represent Jesus' disciples, Jesus said followers should care for sick
Beds positioned towards alter, religious statues + images in stained glass windows - could then be healed
People who had infectious/incurable diseases not allowed, looked after at home
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Healers
Housewife
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Treatments and cures: herbs + plants, charms + spells
Effectiveness: not very effective, didn't know much to help
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The Barber
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Treatments + cures
Practised bloodletting, pulled out rotten teeth + boils
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Trained Physicians
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Treatments and cures: urine/ astrological charts would be used to determine best approach to medicine
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Training: At uni/ medical school for 14 years, Learnt works/ practises of Galen, had to pass exams, women could not to go uni
Medieval Physicians
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Treatments and cures: Bleeding, purging, herbal remedies to balance 4 humours. Based on Galen's theory of opposites
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Other info: Expensive to go to one, saw dissections
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The Apothecary
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Training: through apprenticeship, didn't go to uni, and didn't have any medical qualifications
Other info: cheap, for poor
Effectiveness: random chance, helped some but not all
Causes in disease
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The 4 Humours
All 4 humours (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood) had to be equal for the patient to be considered healthy, if unbalanced, considered to be ill
Miasma (bad air)
swamps, corpses + other rotting things could spread disease
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