barriers to progress Flashcards
inversant the different beliefs that made it so that further discoveries in medicine were prevented
what was the idea that disease was transported through bad air
miasma theory
what is spontaneous generation
its the idea that rotting materials would create disease, magots and fleas
the theory of opposites
the idea that your illness was caused by too much of one humour, the balance of your humours could be restored by eating or drinking something with the opposite qualities
the theory of four humeurs
According to humoralism, four bodily fluids—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm—determined a person’s temperament and an imbalance led to certain sicknesses dependent upon which humors were in excess or deficit. The humors were connected to celestial bodies, seasons, body parts, and stages of life.
religious belifes
most people believed in an after life so wanted to be buried not opened for sciense so the way that docteurs were able to operate on dead bodys was by stealing them from their graves or by getting them from a prison but there wasn’t enough supply for the demand of the schools
