History medicine: supernatural causes of disease
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- Created on: 12-04-18 12:19
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- medieval: supernatural belief
- supernatural causes
- believed disease was a punishment from God
- disease existed to show them error of ways to make them better people
- cure disease with repentance and prayer
- caused by evil supernatural beings: demon or witches
- some diseases cause by evil spirits
- believed disease was a punishment from God
- Church
- Roman catholics were extremely powerful organisation. studied and though about medicine
- church encouraged people to believe in disease was a punishment from God, rather than a natural cause
- prevented people from finding cures to diseases just pray and repent
- church made scholars learn work of Galen his ideas fir christian belief
- church outlawed dissection, meant that medieval doctors couldn't discover ideas about human anatomy
- Astrology
- idea that movementsof the planets and plants have an effect on earth on people
- astologers in medieval England believed that these movements could cause disease
- astrology new idea of movements of planets and starts
- medieval doctors owned a type of calendar where planets and stars were
- doctor used star information to predict patients health
- different star signs thought o affect different parts of body
- supernatural causes
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