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Health and Medicine
Middle Ages
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influence of the church
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Galen supported the ‘design theory’ which meant that God created everybody to be perfect and that nothing could go wrong with them unless they sinned
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Miasma
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Doctors carried posies and oranges when treating patients in an act to protect themselves from disease
Treating Disease
Thought it was punishment, did flagellation where they’d wip themselves
Physicians were male doctors when trained at university for at least seven years, in 1300 there were less than 100 in England and they were expensive
Hospitals and Surgery
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Hugh of Luca and his son Theodoric began to soak their bandages in wine as it kept out infection after noticing it by chance
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Islamic Medicine
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Muhammad said that for every illness that Allah has created, he has also created a cure
In 805 Caliph Al-Rashid set up a hospital in Baghdad with a medical school, they had the intentions to treat the patients
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Many Islamic medical documents were translated into different languages and used around the world spreading the idea of curing instead of caring
Making new discoveries
Abulcasis
Wrote Al-Tasrif where he described amputations, removal of bladder stones, dental surgery
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Avenzoar described the parasite that caused scabies going against the idea that illness was caused by god
Another Islamic doctors suggested that the blood flows from one side of the heart to the other via the lungs, Galen said the blood flowed across the septum
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