Question 1
8 marksQ2 Explain the significance
Explain the significance of monasteries for public health in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Medicine Practice Questions
Question 2
8 marksQ3 Explain two ways they were similar
Explain two ways in which the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665 were similar.
Question 3
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a handbook of practice written in about 1400 by an English physician, to instruct students who were training in medicine at a university.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
When you are called to a patient, first ask on what day and at what hour the sickness began, for the position of the planets at that time will guide you. Inspect the urine against the chart and consider its colour, its thickness and its smell. If the patient is hot and red, the blood is in excess and you must bleed him from the vein that the almanac allows for that season. Remember what the ancient authorities teach: health is the balance of the four humours. Tell the patient also to confess his sins, for no remedy succeeds without God's help.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying the work of medieval physicians?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.
Question 4
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a report written by an official sent by a bishop to inspect a hospital in an English town, 1356. He had been sent to check that the hospital's gifts of land and money were being used as its founder had intended.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
We found within the hospital twelve poor and sick folk, as the founder ordained, each lying in a clean bed. The brothers and sisters rise in the night for their prayers, and mass is said each day in the chapel beside the beds, so that the sick may hear it and be comforted. They wash the sick, give them bread, ale and pottage, and the sister who keeps the garden prepares herbs for them. No physician attends here. Those sick of leprosy, and women with child, are not received. Since the great pestilence our rents are much decayed, and the master complains he can scarce feed those he has.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying hospitals in medieval England?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.