Medieval Medicine
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- Created on: 24-10-22 11:59
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- Medieval Medicine
- Causes
- God- punishment for sin
- Supernatural spirits
- Astrology
- Theory of Four Humours
- Miasma theory
- Treatment
- prayer, repentance and pilgrimages
- flagellation
- exorcisms
- Theory of opposites
- Diagnosis
- Star signs and almanac
- The church only allowed dissection on criminals who had been executed
- meaning Galen's mistaken idea's couldn't be corrected
- The crusades meant Western Europeans met Muslim doctors
- so ideas about medicine could be spread
- Monks were the only ones that could read and write
- so the church had control over medical texts
- Hospitals
- Christians believed it was they duty to help the sick
- Monasteries were hygienic, with clean water and sewage facilities
- Funded by the Church
- Christians believed it was they duty to help the sick
- Overseen by priests not doctors
- Palliative treatment- relieve symptoms not cure condition
- Hippocrates
- advocated using natural treatments
- Clinical observation
- Hippocratic oath
- Theory of Four Humours
- Galen
- Blood was absorbed by the body
- Theory of opposites
- Causes
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