Influence on ideas about the cause of disease - medieval england
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- Created on: 29-05-18 06:05
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- Influence on ideas about the cause of disease
- Individuals
- Hippocrates
- Galen
- books were preserved and available in Europe for a long time, very popular.
- Hippocrates
- popular with the church, so he was widely promoted.
- books were preserved and available in Europe for a long time, very popular.
- Church
- Didn't like change
- Controlled medical learning
- Chose the books that were copied and distributed .
- Liked the Theory of the four Humours, so they promoted it
- Discouraged anyone from criticizing it
- Science and technology
- lack of scientific understanding meant that new knowledge was limited.
- tried to make new discoveries fit into the old theories, rather than experimenting to explain the discoveries
- Printing Press
- 1440: Gutenberg - eventually lead to much faster and easier sharing of medical texts - not a huge impact in the Medieval area
- lack of scientific understanding meant that new knowledge was limited.
- Attitudes in society
- strong belief in God , so they didn't want to be critical and risk going to Hell.
- physicians that didn't use the old theories found it difficult to find work.
- many believed that, since medicine had always been done this way, there was no need to change it.
- Individuals
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