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Greek'Father of Medicine' originator of the Doctor's Oath
Roman physician at the heart of medical thought for over a milennium
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile and Black Bile - the liquids which determined the health of a body
A means of purging the body to restore the balance of humours
Where medieval Doctor's learnt their art
Medicinal plants often used by doctors, apothecaries and folk practitioners
Prescribed bloodsucking animals
Use of the stars to assess health
Doctor's diagram showing how the stars affect parts of the body
Diagram used in examination of bodily fluids to assess health
How a doctor would assess the wellness of a patient from ancient times
The doctor's identification of the nature of an illness
The doctor's opinion on the likely course of an illness
Townspeople able to carry out minor medical procedures like setting bones and tooth extraction
Inhabitant of a village with a knowledge of health and the role of foods and herbs in providing cure or relief
Christian belief in cause of disease and the endurance of pain
Recommended journey taken to help find a cure for a condition by praying on the relics of saints
Role played by monks in transferring medical wisdom from the ancient world
Places where the sick were looked after, mostly founded by the Church with rich benefactors
Contagious disease with biblical significance for which special hospitals were set up
The medical wing of a monastery where the sick were cared for
English monk who challenged the authority of Galen and suggested research is better than received wisdom
Baghdad 'university' which contained many of the great ancient medical texts which were then copies and distributed throughout Asia and Europe
Islamic writer of over 150 books, he stressed need for careful observation and distinguished difference between measles and smallpox
Great Islamic scholar who produced what became the standard textbook for doctors in the Middle Ages
Great encyclopaedia of medical knowledge written in the 11th century
Italian medical schools where much ancient and Islamic wisdom was taught
Drilling a hole into the brain, an ancient treatment for many ailment
Means by which a surgeon would learn their trade
Surgical procedure of removing damaged parts of the body
Where many surgeons learnt and improved their art due to the number of cases they had to deal with quickly
Using a heated iron to stem the flow of blood from a wound
Early examples of (ineffective) anaesthetics
Islamic writer of 30 volumes on medicine and inventor of 26 new surgical instruments
Surgeons at Bologna University who sought to prevent infection by cleaning out pus and using wine on wounds to sterilise them
English surgeon at the time of the Hundred Years' War, specialised in anal fistulas, wrote a surgical manual and set up a Guild of Surgeons
Most important means of ensuring health in a built-up area
Receptacles for human waste, had to be cleared out on a regular basis
Latrines, usually in a small outhouse
Means of removing excess water and waste within towns
Place where most waste from a town would end up
Theory that linked unpleasant smells to disease
Business using chemicals and dyes which were regularly dumped into rivers
Producers of significant disease-ridden waste in the form of blood and offal
Means that towns tried to regulate waste, the use of water, drains and cesspits
Places in the Middle Ages with better public health
The worst epidemic of the Middle Ages in the 1340s
Identifying signs that you have developed bubonic plague
Minority group accused of being behind the plague
Bacilllus responsible for bubonic plague
Christian belief about the causes of plague
Avoiding contact between infected and non-infected people
Means to show humility to God by being punished in the hope of avoiding the Black Death
Proportion of people in England killed by Black Death
Outcome of Black Death caused by lack of farmers
Outcome of Black Death in which survivors expected to be better rewarded
Act of 1351 in which the King tried to limit farmers ability to cash in on the decline in population
Popular uprising in 1381 caused by discontent over rewards and status after the Black Death
A religious outcome of the Black Death
Place where monks would wash
Place where monks would cultivate medicinal plants
The idea that monks strictly limit their diet and activity to promote better balance of the humours
Reason many monastic communities would not get diseases common in towns
System of water management in which clean water is used and flushes away waste further downstream
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