Medieval Period: Natural vs Supernatural

Natural

The Christian Church approved of the knowledge of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Galen, although he lived in Roman times, believed in one God. This fitted with Christian ideas.

Doctors used:

clinical observation – checking pulse and urine

four humours

Medieval doctors based their natural cures of the Ancient Greek theory of illness, which involved the equal balance of the body’s four humours: blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. They believed that a person became ill when they were out of balance, and the doctor’s jobs was to restore this balance. The Ancient Greek Hippocrates came up the Theory…