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Medicine in Medieval England The medical practices i
Medicine in Medieval England The medical practices i
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Medicine in Medieval England
The medical practices in Medieval England:
Based upon (1)______, ancient texts, myth or the direction of the church which proved unbeneficial to the people of England.
The forthcoming results:
Common people didn’t care about improving their own health.
The life and livelihood of an average person was (2)______.
In the villages, many children were weak from (3)______, either mental or physical. Many would die in childhood. And infant (4)______was heavy.
A medical service was non-existent.
To the end of 1400, medicine was mainly practiced by clerics in monasteries.
The physician thought surgery was beneath his dignity, because he didn’t want to (5)______.
Surgery was left to uneducated "barbers" . The physician was not advanced, (6)______diseases by inspection of the blood and urine.
The above-mentioned practices proved of little help.
According to Christian theology, disease was considered to be cured by (7)______means.
Scientific investigation was inhibited.
In medieval England, surgery had a severe and (8)______nature. Lepers, crippl
es and blind were easily seen. Those sick people were helpless, most of whom couldn’t afford medical attention.
E.g. Lepers living in provisions were actually left (9)______.
In conclusion, the health conditions and medical care for people in medieval England were (10)______. [br]
Medicine in Medieval England
To start today’s lecture, I’d first quote an English idiom. It is said that"An apple a day keeps the dentist away." This has become a common saying among society today. We do not stop to think of how it reflects our outlook of medicine in our lives. We have come to understand the value of simple practices in order to keep ourselves healthy. This is not, however, the case of Medieval England. Most"medical practices" of the time were based upon superstition, ancient texts, myth, or the direction of the church. Medical practices of Medieval England often based upon nothing more than superstition proved unbeneficial if not harmful to the people of England.
Therefore, part of the obvious problem was the fact that the common person had little care or sense for improving their own health. The life and livelihood of an average person was less than desirable even from the time of birth.
In the villages chronic inbreeding must have produced many children who started life with a built-in weakness, either mental or physical. Many would die in childhood, but others who grew into manhood, might drag out a useless existence, dependent on charity for their sustenance. In general, infant mortality was extremely heavy....Once the child was free to crawl about among the unsanitary rushes, with a child’s natural instinct to put everything into its mouth, it is a wonder that any survived. From then on disease and accident would provide ample scope for a medical service, which was virtually non-existent. Furthermore, the collective knowledge was held and practiced by Monks in Monasteries.
In summary of medical practice to the end of 1400, it may be said medicine was practiced mostly by the clerics in monasteries and the laity whose locus of operation was the apothecary shop. The physician thought surgery was beneath his dignity, because it caused him to have blood on his hands and clothes and left this to uneducated"barbers". The practitioner carried the title "Master," whereas teachers carried the title"Doctor". The physician was little advanced over the knowledge of Galen’s time. They still believed in the Doctrine of four humors, making diagnoses by inspection of the blood and urine. Most of the therapeutic measures included blood letting, steam baths, spells, hexes, prayers, the king’s touch, and so on.
The problem is furthered by the fact that these "practices" proved of little benefit. Most of these had no scientific basis and were instead rooted in superstition or the church. "The concern of Christian theology, on the other hand, was to cure the soul rather than the body; disease usually was considered supernatural in origin and cured by religious means. As a result, scientific investigation was inhibited during this time. Brothers of various monasteries copied and preserved those scientific manuscripts and documents which were thought to be consistent with prevailing religious thought".
To sum it up,"For England, as far as the twelfth century was concerned, medicine was traditional, composed of a mixture of herbal lore and popular magic, while surgery was brutal and must often have been fatal". This now brings us to another point, the fact of the severe and unsophisticated nature of surgery."Two twelfth-century manuscripts, one early, show medical treatment, and in both cauterizing seems important. The earlier one shows the physician cauterizing a shorn head, while an attendant in a room below is heating a relay of instruments in a furnace. The second manuscript shows cauterizing for trouble in the head and in the stomach a painful remedy!" More is written of this, "Two of the manuscripts show the doctor in his drug store, instructing his apprentice in the compounding of medicines. It was here that the medieval superstition reigned supreme. The ingredients heated in the furnace and pounded in the mortar could contain anything from crushed rocks to the entrails of animals and dead insects."
Lepers, cripples, and the blind were not uncommon in Medieval England. "Cripples were everywhere. When the only known way to deal with a leg wound, or other leg ailment, was to amputate, it stands to reason that anyone strong enough to survive the primitive and intolerable severance of the limb would be joining a numerous band." Yet, they, along with other sick people had nowhere to turn. Most could not afford medical attention, and hospitals were nothing like that of now."Provision for lepers, who were the outcasts of society, was the motive for the foundation of many of the earliest hospitals, which were intended not for the cure of the sick but as refuge for the incurable and the dying."
In addition, in regard to the malign or beneficent influence, one is driven to the conclusion that the surest way to survive was to keep away from the doctor. It should be clear that the health conditions for people in England of this time would be so unbearable that it would not be desirable by anybody. It is hard to imagine that anyone could see any benefit to the practices of the time. Yet thus is the case of any era: something commonly accepted of one age is looked down upon by the next. Perhaps a century or two down the historical road mankind will be simply disgusted by the way we live. That’s all for today’s lecture. Thanks.
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touch blood
解析
本题为归纳总结题,讲座中提到The physician thought surgery was beneath his dignity, because it caused him to have blood on his hands and clothes and left this to uneducated“barbers”.换而言之,当时的医生认为外科手术要沾血有辱尊严,所以他们治病不愿碰到血。
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