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Health Care in Medieval Times

TEACHER'S KIT

Table of Contents

• Mission Statement of the Museum of Health Care at Kingston
• Program Overview
• Program Links to the Grade 4 Curriculum
• Vocabulary List (Pre-visit Activity)
• Suggestions for Post-visit Activities: list
  • Post-visit Activities
  • Possible post-visit quiz
• Teacher Resources

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

(PowerPoint Interactive Presentation: about 70 min.)

• Medieval Days
  • General living conditions in towns & in the country
  • Health problems arising from these conditions
  • General diet
  • The role & influence of the Church
  • Sin as cause of disease
  • Prayer, penitence, & pilgrimage as treatment for such diseases
  • Population increase during this period
• Health Practitioners
  • Folk Healers, Midwives, Apothecaries, Barber-Surgeons, Physicians
• Diagnosis
  • Four Humours, Uroscopy
• Treatment
  • Purging in some form (sweat, vomit, urine, faeces, blood)
  • Bloodletting
  • Amputation
  • Trephination/Trepanation
  • Herbal Remedies
  • Charms
• The Black Death
  • Protective gear for physicians
  • Origins and Transmission (spread)
  • Symptoms
  • Cures and Prevention
  • Long-lasting effects

See a medieval cure created by students! Read their comments about the program.