Health & The People: Influence On Medieval Medicine Flashcards
What did the Greeks believe in?
The four humours
What did the Greeks practice their dissections on?
Animals
What did the believe was important for a patient’s recovery? (2)
Rest and a diet
Whose texts did Greeks use in universities
Galen’s
What did the Greeks want to understand?
How and why things worked
Did Islam allow dissections of human bodies?
No
What was important to islams?
Charity and caring for others - hospitals were set up for the sick
In Islam, where and when was the first hospital set up?
Cairo in 1283
What were patients given when they left hospital and why?
Money - so they didn’t have to go strait back to work
What did islams encourage?
Medical learning
What were Islamic hospitals intended for?
To treat patient and not simply care for them
What did Christian’s belief about God?
That he controlled everything - if he made people ill or not
What did churches value in Christianity?
Traditional medial knowledge of the ancient world
What did Christian’s teach?
Hippocratic and Galen’s ideas
What did Christian’s believe was the most important treatment?
Prayers to god
In Christian influence, who was hospitals mainly financed by?
Christian church and wealthy patron
What did Christian churches have instead of doctors?
Priests
Who wear Christian churches run by?
Nuns or monks
How many hospitals in Christian influence was started between 1000 & 1500
700 +
What did Christian’s believe about the sick?
It was good to help them
Illness came from god and curing them would be going against him
Why did Christian’s approve of Galen’s books?
Because he believed in 1 god
What were the different types of hospitals in Christian influence?
Asylums (for the mentally ill)
Lazar house (for leprosy)
Monasteries
