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Medicine through time quiz
medieval medicine
Your Paper 2 – worth 30% - is on this topic so make sure you learn it thoroughly.
Remember Medieval and Middle Ages are the same period.
1. Which organisation was very powerful in the Middle Ages and how did they hinder
medicine?(2)
2. Which empire helped preserve medical knowledge during the Middle Ages?
3. Who was Avicenna and what did he do? (2)
4. Give one supernatural explanation for disease in the Middle Ages.
5. Give one natural explanation for disease in the Middle Ages.
6. How did public health in medieval times differ from public health in Roman times?
7. Who usually carried out surgery in medieval England? Were they respected?
8. What was a urine chart and how was it used?
9. Whose ideas were doctors taught about in the Middle Ages? (HINT: You need to come up
with two people).
10. Why did the Church like Galen’s ideas so much?
11. Why were monasteries important in medicine in the medieval period?
12. What event was a turning point in the Middle Ages where people began to improve Public
Health?
13. What did people think caused the Black Death?
14. What was flagellation and why was it done? (2)
15. What was a quack doctor?
16. For each picture, write the treatment that is shown. These were still being used in the Middle
Ages.
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