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Medicine in the medieval period - Coggle Diagram
Medicine in the medieval period
Impacts of Hippocrates
He believed was the body consisted of 4 substances:blood, plegm, yellow bile and magma bile.He believed that these had to be balanced or else you would be sick
This theory was widely accepted until the 18th century
Imapcts of Galen
He was not Christian
He dissected animals to learn about the human anatomy but that is where he made errors because animal anatomy is very different to human anatomy.
The church would arrest people for openly disagreeing
The Catholic Church disallowed anyone to disagree with him because he believed there was a creator.
Impacts of the Church
The church disallowed disagreeing with Galens theories which were wrong because he dissected animals and it is different.
There had places for the poor people to rest if they were sick for free because they were following Jesus’s teaching because he healed the sick.
they did not try to cure patient but try to care for them because they believed that illness was a punishment from God.
Medieval hospitals
Churches had dormitories that had space for poor, sick people.They gave them free food and water and a clean place to recover
There were ‘Lazar houses’ to give people with leprosy a peaceful place to live.It was mainly crusaders coming back from the Middle East because it was widely spread in the Middle East at the time.
Impacts of Islam
Al Razi (known as the rhazes in the west) was an Islamic physician that wrote a medical book containing medical knowledge from greek, Indian and Islamic.this was the standard book to study in the west as a doctor
He distinguished measles from smallpox.
Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna) is a Islamic philosopher and physician who wrote a encyclopaedia contains over 1 million words and listing 760 drugs and their properties.This book was the standard book in the west and the Islamic empire up until the 17th century
Ibn al rafis was a famous physician that accurately described the ciruclation of blood through the right side of your lung to the left
This disproved Galen’s theory and although a follower of Galen he believed that students should improve on their masters work
