Middle Ages Medicine and Public Health

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Why did public health regress after the Romans left?
War, rulers didn't see it as their responsibility and didn't have the money, people moved out of towns leaving public health systems, no engineers they had all gone back to Rome, travel was dangerous and lots of medical ideas were lost.
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What was public health like in the Middle Ages?
No sewers, bath houses, gongfermers and rakers, hospitals being set up and monostries did have clean water and sewage system.
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What treatments were used in the Middle Ages?
Bleeding, urine charts, herbal remedies and zodiac charts.
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How were doctors trained in the Middle Ages?
At beginning there was no training, then universities were set up and doctors went there and studied the books of Galen, Hippocrates and Arab doctors, astronomy was very important too.
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Why was Galen still being read and the main influence in medicine?
Church supported his ideas, he wrote loads of books so it was thought that everything had been covered, dissections weren't exploring the body and students weren't expected to challenge ideas.
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What did people think caused the Black Death?
Punishment from God, minority groups (the Jews), miasma, alignment of the planets and imbalance of humours.
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