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Medieval Era - Coggle Diagram
Medieval Era
Towns in general with some exceptions were dirty places.
Rubbish and human waste were thrown into the streets.
Rats, lice and fleas flourished in the rushes strewn over the clay floors of peoples houses often changed only once a year.
Open drains overflowing cesspits polluted drinking water.
The church set up around 700 hospitals in this period.
Following Jesus' example came for the sicks.
Care not cure
No proper doctors but some people do get better.
Medical practitioners
Wise woman
Skills handed down by her family.
Other woman
Chiefly Midwifery
Apothecary
Apprenticeships
Ordinary people
Advise patients on their medical needs drugs and herbal remedies
Hippocrates and galen
Theory of 4 humours Hippocrates that inside the body there are 4 liquids or hours.
Theory of opposites 350 collection of books Galen’s idea to build on hippocrates theory
Hippocratic oath
Miasma bad smelling air causes disease
Theory of the 4 humours
Ideas about illness
Religion
Surgery
Public health
Trepanning (Whole in the head)
Urology (Study of urine)
Doctors learned a lot about slash and stab rooms
Ampitaitions and coutirsation