What did medieval people believe caused the Black Death?
•Gods punishment
•miasma
•planet alignment
•Unbalanced humours
•Jews poisoning wells
What were the symptoms of the Black Death?
•buboes
•blackened finger tips and toes
•fever
•vomiting blood
•aching joints
•coma
•death
What were the treatments of the Black Death?
•Draining puss from buboes
•balancing humours (bloodletting, purging, leeching etc)
•leaving it to Gods will
•prayers
•Kings touch healed
•confessing sins
What were the preventions of the Black Death?
•Flagellants whipped themselves as punishments for their sins
•pilgrimages
•prayer
•quarantining
•sweet smelling herbs to drive away miasma
•avoid public bathing (they believed opening pores let in miasma)
•burning human sized candles
•Regimen sanitatis
What years were the Black Death?
1348 - 1350
What percentage of the population did the Black Death kill?
30%
How many qualified physicians were there in England by 1300?
100
How many years did it take Medieval physicians to qualify for the job?
7 years
How many bodies were being burned in plague pits in London every day during the Black Death?
200 per day
List 4 facts about physicians in the medieval period
•They were university educated
•They used star charts, undone charts and the four humours to diagnose people
•only rich people could afford them
•They matched remedies to symptoms
List 3 facts about Apothecaries in the Medieval period
•very cheap
•Mixed herbal remedies
•often family run
List 3 facts about Barber surgeons
•cheap
•lacked training
•performed basic surgery such as amputations, trepanning etc
List 4 facts about hospitals of the medieval period
•run by the church
•funded by charity
•provided hygiene, prayer, rest, food and herbal remedies
•most did not admit infected patients or pregnant women
