Health and the People

Why did the Medieval Church support Galen?

• He seemed to support the idea of one God.

• His brother was Pope

• He was a priest

• He was a Christian

Who copied books in the Middle Ages and so controlled what was copied?

• Knights

• Monks

• Secretaries

• Bishops

How did monks remove wastes from a monastery?

• Peasants

• Built toilets over streams

• Built toilets outside the monastery

• Carried it away in buckets

John Ardenne developed hemlock and opium as what?

• Antiseptic

• Laudable Pus

• Miasma

• Anesthetic

Name one hospital established in the Middle Ages.

• Guy's

• Coram's Foundling

• Doncaster Royal

• St Bartholomew's

The church promoted which language which enabled doctors to across Europe to communicate?

• Greek

• Latin

• French

• Spanish

Medieval Coventry had a law banning what?

• Doctors

• Using Opium

• Toilets built over streams

• Pilgrimage

What percentage of the population died from the Black Death?

• 10%

• 75%

• 33-50%

• 25%

How did Medieval people explain the Black Death?

• Germs

• Punishment from God

• Planets in an evil alignment

• Miasma

What was not a a consequence of the Black Death?

• Labourers wages went up.

• Peasants gained more land

• London brought in Bills of Mortality

• A new cure was invented