Medicine: Middle Ages
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- Created on: 06-04-17 08:33
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- MEDICINE Middle Ages
- Causes
- Punishment for sin
- Astrology (stars and planets)
- The Four Humours, theory of the opposites & miasma
- Prevention
- Sin-free life, praying, confessions
- Regimen Sanitatis
- Cleansing the air, charms & amulets
- Treatment
- King's power, fasting, special mass, praying, holy relics, offerings
- Spells, charms, amulets, star signs, spiritual healing
- Bleeding, purging, herbal remedies
- Healers
- Physicians: diagnosed illness, expensive
- Apothecaries: mixed herbal remedies and poisons, not expensive
- Hospitals: run by the Church, offered care not treatment
- Surgeries: risky, high chance of dying
- Home: traditional family treatment
- Individuals
- Galen- theory of the opposites
- Hippocrates- theory of the Four Humours
- Greek and Roman doctors no modern individuals
- Institutions
- The Church controlled everyday life, education and science
- The Government had very little input in science and medicine
- Causes
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