GCSE History Medieval Medicine - ideas about the cause of disease
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- Created on: 26-05-19 16:33
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- Ideas about the cause of disease
- The church
- Didn't like change
- Controlled which books copied and distributed
- Copied by hand - fews made hard for ideas to spread
- Disease punishment from God / test of faith
- No need to look for other causes
- Would go to hell if challenged Bible
- Astrology
- Important because of influence of Hippocrates
- The Theory of the Four Humours - HIPPOCRATES
- Galen used to develop Theory of Opposites
- Backed by Church
- Lack of scientific evidence to support other theories
- Many believed no need to change how medicine done
- Miasma
- Hippocrates & Galen both wrote about it
- Education
- Learned Hippocrates & Galen correct about all aspects of medicine
- Doctors not encouraged to expermiment nor think for themselves
- Church controlled education
- Learned Hippocrates & Galen correct about all aspects of medicine
- Government
- No taxes collected to help improve medicine
- The church
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