Middle Ages
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- Middle Ages
- Healers
- Monks and nuns in monasteries and other religious hospitals.
- Barber surgeons.
- Doctors for the rich.
- Women in homes, wise women, midwives for childbirth.
- Causes
- Poor hygiene in cramped towns
- Injuries from fighting in battles
- Plagues such as the Black Death
- 500AD - 1500AD
- Factors for change
- Religion.
- Hindered - both major religions at the time banned dissection.
- Helped - it was a religious duty to care for the sick.
- War.
- Helped surgeons - gave them a lot of practice.
- Harmed - the public health systems were destroyed.
- Religion.
- Explanations
- Natural
- Bad airs and smells.
- Imbalance of the four humours.
- Supernatural
- Sent by God as punishment.
- Astrology
- Natural
- Treatments
- Natural
- Use of opposites and four humours (bleeding, purging).
- Herbal remedies
- Supernatural
- Praying to God for forgiveness.
- Self beating.
- Natural
- Healers
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