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MEDIEVAL HEALTH & MEDICINE WJEC GCSE
MEDIEVAL HEALTH & MEDICINE WJEC GCSE
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1
Which was NOT one way to prevent illness by pleasing God?
Leg-spikes
Prayer
Blood-letting
Self-flagellation
2
What was the name given to people working to provide the 'Elixir of life'?
Alchemists
Scientists
Chemists
Physicians
3
Which treatment would NOT be used to balance your humours?
Using honey, herbs and water to empty the bowels
Instigating vomiting
Opening your stomach with a knife
Suction cupping
4
Causes: What is the name of the study of planets and stars?
Philosophy
Astronomy
Alchemy
Astrology
5
Which of these public health improvements did NOT emerge in 15th century London?
50 tonnes excrement produced a day
18 public bath houses in Southwark
12 latrines in London
Muck rakers and Gong farmers were well paid to manage waste
6
Where did the Black Death enter Wales?
Haverford West
Swansea
Anglesey
Cardiff
7
What happened to the village of Cosmeston, near Cardiff?
It was deserted as its population was wiped out
It was destroyed by the Wars of the Roses
It burned down to stop the Black Death spreading
It was submerged under a lake
8
Why were houses marked with a red cross in the Black Death?
Physician's house
To show a death had just happened
Safe house
Quarantined/boarded up house
9
Which word means the belief illness was caused by bad smells?
Excrement
Misama
Miasma
Stench
10
Hippocrates and Galen's theory - which one of these was not one of the 4 Humours?
Yellow bile
Blood
Flegm
Black bile
11
What did doctors NOT use to avoid contracting the bubonic plague?
Flowers and vinegar in the beaks of their masks
Waxed cloaks
Candles carried to burn buboes
Gloves
12
Which Knights lived at Ysbyty Ifan around 1190?
Knights of St Bill
The Knights Watch
Knights of St Joseph
Knights of St John
13
Which of these did the Kenfig Ordinances of 1330 NOT order?
No animal or human filth to be thrown withing 50ft of town walls
Butchers not to slaughter in streets
Residents to keep their pavements clean
No urinating in the public wells
14
How many people died in Wales during the Black Death?
100,000
1,000,000
1,000
100
15
Which of these facts is incorrect about the Physicians of Myddfai?
They were trained at the Strata Florida monastery around 1170
They published herbal remedies in the Red Book of Hergest
They are not very well-known outside of Wales
A family of physicians in Carmarthenshire
16
Causes: which of these was NOT believed to cause illness?
God
Curses
Witches
Water
17
Bald was a 10th Century Anglo-Saxon who wrote which book?
Leechbook
How to grow your hair
Remedy book
Modern Medicine
18
Hywel Dda was known for what?
Discovering soap
Keeping Black Death records
Welsh lawbooks setting public health expectations
Making medical discoveries
19
Who ordered the streets of London to be cleaned during the Black Death?
Edward II
Hywel Dda
Edward III
Henry VIII
20
What is the Latin term for blood-letting?
Venesection
Vainsection
Vivisection
Venesuction
21
Causes: Which of these was NOT a public health concern?
Contamination from human excrement
Wars of the Roses
Poor air quality
Contamination from animal slaughter
22
Causes: What was thought to be a cause of the Black Death?
Public health
Genetics
Animal slaughter
Jews poisoning wells
23
When were bad harvests causing malnutrition in Medieval Britain?
1452-3
1568-9
1315-17
1298-9
24
The Wars of the Roses 1095-1300 caused wounds which would be infected by...
Typhoid
Syphillis
Gangrene
Gout
25
Why was the medical theory of Galen not challenged until much later?
Blood-letting was too well-established for the 4 Humours to be in doubt
Hippocrates was too well-respected
Galen was too famous and the Romans were well-respected in britain
The theory was accepted/supported by the Church so couldn't be challenged
26
Which group of people travelled and saw examples of health care in the Middle East?
Knights on quests
Tradespeople
Holy Crusaders
Royalty
27
Where could you bathe to heal yourself of skin problems or rheumatism?
In the local river or lake
In a tin bath before the fire
Sea dipping was considered healthy in medieval times
St Winefried's in Holywell
28
Medieval infant mortality rate: 30% would die before age 7. Which would they NOT die of?
Dysentry
Smallpox
Aids
Bubonic plague
29
Ibn Sina was a medieval physician. Which fact below is incorrect?
He was known in the West as Avicenna
He published The Canon of Medicine in 1025
He was muslim
He died of the Black Death
30
What did the wise woman Mother Shipman NOT offer to prevent illness?
Venesection
Herbal remedies
A mineral-rich well to bathe in next to her cave
Charms/spells to ward off curses
31
Which procedure would a Barber Surgeon NOT perform?
Using hot iron to seal wounds
Leeching
Extracting teeth
Setting boned
32
Which of these was not a monastery providing hospitality to Welsh people or travellers?
Strata Florida
Ysbyty Ifan
St Joseph's
Tintern Abbey
