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WorksheetsHealth & Medicine in the Middle Ages
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
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 (a) 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
A common illness which caused pus filled blisters was called...
leprosy
smallpox
influenza
typhoid
placing heated metals on the skin to draw fluids to the surface was called
cupping
leeching
bloodletting
Amputation
Using leeches to draw the "bad blood" or other fluids out of the body was called...
bloodletting
trepanning
leeching
cupping
What was used for medicine during the Middle Ages?
fruit
paracetamol
herbs
The worse disease to affect Europe during the Middle Ages was...
leprosy
The Black Death or bubonic plague
smallpox
The Black Death killed ______ _____ of the population of Europe.
half
one quarter
one third
The bubonic plague was brought from fleas on rats from China.
True
False
Who is pictured?
A knight
A peasant
A plague doctor
