Medicine through Time 2

SUPERNATURAL AND RELIGIOUS CAUSES OF DISEASE

The power of the Church increased due to Christianity becoming more important and popular, which meant that it became important in medicine and treatment too. Many priests could read and write, so they were one of the only people who could write books about medicine. The Church was international so it was the channel of communication and pepple believed very strongly in religion.

The Church taught that whoever committed sin would be punished by God, so people then thought that illness was a punishment from God and that the devil sent diseases to…