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Main features of medieval medicine (People who healed the sick (Surgeons…
Main features of medieval medicine
Causes of illness
God's punishment
Miasma
Alignment of the planets
Four humours being inbalanced
People who healed the sick
Surgeons
Performed operations on patients. Women could be surgeons
Midwives
Women who cared for women giving birth
Apothecaries
People who made ointments and medicines for phyisicians and sold them as well
Physicians
Doctors who trained at university for 7 years and diagnosed and treated patients
Monks and nuns
From the church who cared for the elderly in hospitals
Treatments
Wine / Honey to stop infections spreading
Let some of each humour out
Blood letting to let out bad blood
Vomit and purging to make you vomit
Theory of opposites - give you something warm to eat if you were cold, give you something cold to eat or an ice bath if you were hot
Prevention
Cleaning the streets
Using birds to fly around your room and ringing bells to keep miasma circling
Prayer, pilgrimage and to become a flagellant
Exercise and diet