Medieval caregivers

12 questions

1. Surgeries are considered ___ because they involve cutting into the body.
2. Who performed medieval surgeries?
3. Which of the following was not a major problem of medieval surgery?
4. Trepanning involved drilling a hole into which part of the body?
5. Which major problem of surgery was cauterisation used to try and manage?
6. Why was opium not used more commonly as a medieval anaesthetic?
7. What word means 'to say what is wrong with someone who is sick'?
8. Match each of the medieval caregivers to the correct description of their work.
9. Write the missing number. Over ___ hospitals were founded in England between 1000 and 1500.
10. ___ houses were hospitals for lepers.
11. How were most medieval physicians trained at university?
12. Which statement is most accurate?

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