How did christianity affect medieval medicine?
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- How did christianity affect Medieval medicine?
- The Christian church believed that Jesus healed the sick.
- However, there was a strong belief that illness came from God and that curing an illness would be a challenge to God.
- Christians often prayed to God to cure illnesses.
- How did Christians treat the sick?
- Between 1000 and 1500 more than 700 hospitals were founded in England.
- Many hospitals didn't have doctors, but Priests and were run my monks or nuns.
- Hospitals depended on charity for funds and were mainly financed by the church or a wealthy patron.
- There were special hospitals called 'Lazar Houses' that treated people with Leprosy.
- Between 1000 and 1500 more than 700 hospitals were founded in England.
- In Europe the training of doctors began after 1200, when the continent became more peaceful.
- The Christian church controlled how doctors were trained in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
- The training there was teaching the old ideas of the ancient greeks and romans. it was not a way to discover new ideas.
- The Christian church controlled how doctors were trained in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
- The church saw the role of a doctor as someone who could predict the symptoms and duration of an illness.
- This gave people reassurance and comfort.
- The Christian church believed that Jesus healed the sick.
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