Medieval Medicine
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- Created on: 31-10-20 18:02
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- Medieval Medicine (1250-1500)
- The Church
- They ran most hospitals
- Monks and nuns gave care but no treatments.
- Controlled most of day to day life.
- Controlled most education
- Advocated Galen's and Hippocrates' theories.
- Prevented dissections and held back scientific advances.
- They ran most hospitals
- Prevntion
- Regemin Sanitatis.
- Rules of how to stay healthy
- Prayer
- Pilgrimage
- Regemin Sanitatis.
- Causes
- Punishment from god due to sins.
- Unbalanced humours
- Planets and stars out of line
- Miasma or bad air.
- Key people
- Galen
- Developed the theory of opposites.
- Hyppocrates
- Came up with the theory of the four humours.
- Galen
- Treatments
- Balancing the humours with the opposite element.
- Purging
- Using enema to remove poisons.
- Bleeding
- The Church
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