The Middle Ages

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c.1250-c.1500: The Middle Ages
- Ideas: supernatural and religious
  - God made people ill when he was displeased
  - Disease sent as a test from God
  - Alignment of stars and planets caused disease
  - church taught ordinary people
    - set up universities= trained physicians
  - Discouraged dissection and scientific ideas
    - challenged authority
- Rational explanations for disease
  - Four Humours taught the body was made of four liquids
    - If liquid unbalance= disease
    - Lead to Theory of opposites
  - Theory of opposites
    - Re-balancing the humours through the opposites
    - Developed by Galen
  - Miasma= disease caused by 'bad air'
- Approaches to prevention and treatment
  - Treatments
    - Bloodletting= for in balance of humours
      - performed by barber-surgeons and non-medical persons
    - Purging= re-balance humours through vomiting
    - Traditional remedies= herbs sniffed, drank of bathed in
    - Religious treatments
      - Praying
      - Fasting
      - Pilgrimage
    - supernatural= magpie beak
  - prevention
    - religious & supernatural
      - chanting
      - living christian life
      - self punishment
      - lucky charms
    - Rational Methods
      - bathing
      - bleeding and purging
- Approaches to caring for the sick
  - People who treated sick
    - Barber surgeons
    - care at home (women)
    - Physicians
      - observed patient's symptoms
      - used zodiac charts
      - treated patients themselves
    - Apothecaries
  - hospitals
    - people with infectious diseases not admitted
      - hospital was place of recuperation
        food and rest given
    - run by the church
    - surroundings were kept clean
- CASE STUDY: The Black Death
- Galen and Hippocrates
Lead to Theory of opposites

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