Ideas about causes of disease in the Middle Ages

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  • Ideas about causes of disease
    • Supernatural explanations
      • Position of stars and planets
    • 4 humours
      • Blood
      • Black Bile
      • Yellow Bile
      • Phlegm
      • Must be balanced
      • Came from Hippocrates and Galen
    • Continuity
      • The Church
        • People could not oppose them
        • Fear of the wrath of God
        • Church claimed doctrine was from the Bible
      • Government
        • Refused to spend money
      • Individuals
        • Hippocrates
        • Galen
      • Attitudes (respect for tradition)
        • People were imprisoned for changing ideas - Roger Bacon
        • People too scared of the Church to listen to new ideas
      • Education
        • Illegal to make discoveries
        • Could watch dissections
    • Miasma Theory
      • Bad Air
      • Breathing in caused disease
    • Religious Explanations
      • Leprosy
      • Punishment from God
      • Sins were very terrible

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