Health & Medicine in the Middle Ages

What age did most people live until during the Middle Ages?

• 85

• 35

• 105

Why was disease so common during the Middle Ages? (choose 3 answers)

• Dirty conditions e.g. waste on the streets

• Overcrowded conditions

• Poor hygiene e.g not washing hands regularly

• no one knows

There were no hospitals during the Middle Ages. True or False?

• True

• False

Where did the sick go to be looked after? (*hint: this was a part of a monastery)

• the market square

• the fair green

• the infirmary

Poor diets during the Middle Ages meant people could not fight off infection. True or False.

• True

• False

Peasants often believed sickness was a punishment from who?

• the king

• god

• their neighbour

Astronomers blamed the ____________ going out of line to explain why people got sick.

What ancient Greek doctor was considered 'The Father of Medicine'?

• Plato

• Hippocrates

• Socrates

Hippocrates believed the body was made up of four what?

• four ears

• four bones

• four humours (fluids)

Which common illness is pictured?

• leprosy

• influenza

• smallpox

• Black Death