factors - medicine Flashcards
what did many people in the medieval period believe about disease?
that disease was a punishment from God for people’s sins
what were two cures to disease in medieval period?
prayer and flagellence
what did members of the church do to rid a victim of disease?
exorcisms
give a reason why religion hindered medicine?
the church encouraged people to believe God sent disease and prevented people from trying to find cures for disease
what did the church make sure scholars of medicine learned?
the works of galen as his ideas fit the christian belief that God created the soul and body
true or false: the church allowed human dissection
false, human dissection was illegal dssection was only to be performed on animals
what did astrologers in the medieval period believe?
that the movements of the planets and stars had an affect on earth and people
what was medicine in medieval period dominated by?
the four humours
what was the miasma theory?
that bad air and smells caused disease
who incorporated the miasma theory?
galen
what was the miasma theory replaced by?
the germ theory
give one example of what miasma prompted
cleaning the streets which sometimes helped
why was islamic medicine more rational than european medicine?
mainly evidence based
who wrote the ‘cannon of medicine’?
avicenna
what was the ‘cannon of medicine’ translated into
latin in spain
