Middle Ages
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- Middle Ages
- The Church
- Centre of everyone's lives.
- Village preist controlled what people did and believed.
- God punished people for their sins with death and disease.
- Refused ideas which contradicted the Bible
- Controlled education, books which they disapproved where banned.
- Promoted Galen, and monasteries used his theories as the basis for training doctors.
- Criticism to Galen was harshly treated, e.g. Roger Bacon.
- Dissection was banned.
- Hospitals
- Run by monasteries.
- Housed the poor, elderly or pilgrims rather than offered medical care.
- Treatments consisted of herbal remedies, warmth, food, and were mainly prayers.
- Pregnant women, cripple and, the wounded were banned.
- Women
- Women could not train as doctors because only men could go to university.
- Most people were treated at home by their wife or mother.
- Wise women.
- Women acted as midwives.
- Women could become surgeons as surgeons did not have to train at university.
- Prevention of the Black Death
- Flogging with whips.
- Herbs in the fire to make the air smell sweet.
- Blood letting.
- The Church
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