Middle Ages - Medicine Through Time
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- Created on: 02-06-13 18:13
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- Middle Ages 400AD - 1400AD
- Public Health
- Crowded
- Open Sewers
- Waste in rivers used for drinking and washing water
- Cesspits - but leaked into water supply
- Animal blood and waste in the streets
- Rich people had baths, toilets and water
- Causes of Disease
- God was punishing you
- Theory of the four humours
- Bad air and smells
- Treatment of disease
- Pray to God (flagellation)
- If you were rich - get a doctor/physician
- Doctors study urine charts and astrology
- Village healers and wise women give herbal remedies
- Bleeding, purging and exericising
- Individuals
- Church: in control of education, no dissections, supported Galen, taught disease was from God
- Other
- Black death causes - God, astrology, Jews, bad air, imbalance of humours
- Training of Doctors
- Reading books (Galen) in monasteries
- Universities controlled by Churches
- By 12th Century - a few years of training
- Public Health
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