Ideas about causes of disease in the Middle Ages
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- Created on: 29-10-19 09:39
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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
- The Church
- Miasma Theory
- Bad Air
- Breathing in caused disease
- Religious Explanations
- Leprosy
- Punishment from God
- Sins were very terrible
- Supernatural explanations
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