Medieval Medical Knowledge
A detailed mind map of Medieval medical knowledge, including Christian and Muslim developments.
- Created by: Anna
- Created on: 25-12-13 18:11
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- Medical knowledge
- In the west
- Many Greek and Roman books were lost.
- Any remaining knowledge was replaced with speculation and superstition
- disease was caused by demons, sin, bad smells, astrology and the stars, stagnant water, the Jewish people etc.
- Believed life was controlled by God and his Saints.
- Guy de Chauliac, the Pope's doctor, blamed the Black Death on a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
- After 1100
- Even after universities had been developed, lectures on anatomy still involved limited to basic principles.
- The Church said that Galen's ideas were so correct, there was no need to investigate further.
- Dissection being forbidden lead to a number of errors being made in medical knowledge.
- Italian doctor Alderotti claimed that combing the hair 'comforts the brain.'
- Muslim middle east
- Doctors like Al-Razi conserved the ideas of the Greeks and Romans.
- Later, Muslim doctors such as Ibn-Zuhr and Ibn al-Nafis began to challenge old and develop new ideas.
- However these ideas spread slowly to Europe as The Church was at war with Islam.
- An exception being a book by Ibn Sina called 'The Canon Medicine'.
- However these ideas spread slowly to Europe as The Church was at war with Islam.
- Medieval Medicine through time
- Surgery
- On the Battle field
- Surgeons' skills were in much demand.
- This actually led to an progression in surgery, as new instruments and methods were developing.
- Surgeons' skills were in much demand.
- Performed by barber-surgeons, not trained doctors
- On the Battle field
- Surgeons' skills were in much demand.
- This actually led to an progression in surgery, as new instruments and methods were developing.
- Surgeons' skills were in much demand.
- On the Battle field
- On the Battle field
- Surgery
- In the west
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