Medicine and Treatment

Romans four main ideas about what casused disease in c1350

• The Four Huours (purging and blood letting)
• The Theory of the Opposites (Galen, hot or cold)
• Miasma (bad air/smells)
• The Gods (temples built by gods)

Ideas that made the middle ages

• The Four Humours (doctors told never question Galen)
• Miasma (made sense to people)
• The Gods Sent Disease ( Church controlled doctors)

How did ideas of Galen/Hippocrates survive?

• 410AD- Romans left Britain
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