Doctors and Medicine in the Middle Ages

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  1. 5. In the Middle Ages, the sick often turned to this source which was the dividing line between magic and medicine.
  2. 6. During the Middle Ages, the average life expectancy of an adult was into this stage of their life.
  3. 7. This person also performed minor surgeries and tooth extractions
  4. 8. Doctors often carried around these special calendars containing illustrated star charts which they consulted before making a diagnosis
  5. 9. A contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes and nerves, causing discolouration and lumps on the skin
  6. 11. People in the Middle Ages practiced this in the hope that repentance for sins might help heal
  7. 15. These places had extensive herb gardens during the Middle Ages
  8. 16. It was believed that visiting the shrine of this person could cure an illness
  9. 18. An illness that was the biggest killer in the Middle Ages
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  1. 1. Another name for the four different bodily fluids that people in the Middle Ages believed influenced human health
  2. 2. This pandemic killed 20 million people in Europe within 5 years.
  3. 3. This was used to douse wounds as a form of antiseptic. (What a waste!)
  4. 4. This person would provide herbs or incantations to the sick in the Middle Ages
  5. 6. The practice of perforating the skull to relieve pressure on the brain.
  6. 7. Common Hedgenette is another name for this plant used in Middle Ages medicine
  7. 10. Surgeons relied on these for anesthesia in the Middle Ages
  8. 12. This Ancient Greek Physician was referred to as the “Medical Pope of the Middle Ages”
  9. 13. This everyday herb we commonly use in cooking today was recorded as the remedy for a snake bite
  10. 14. Any plant with leaves, seeds or flowers used for flavouring food, medicine or perfume
  11. 17. An aromatic vegetable substance/powder used to flavour food eg: pepper or cumin