1200-1500

• What was the main cause of disease in the middle ages?


  God
• what was the natural theory for causes of disease?

  4 humours
• what did Hippocrates promote?


  • healthy diet
  • exercise
  • observation
• Who did most ordinary people go to for healing?

  Apocrathies
• Galen extended on the 4 humours and made...?

  The Theory Of Opposites
• Galen held longer influence because he believed in what?

  God
• How did Galen get public attention?


  Animal dissections
• Galens dissections led him to make?


  Incorrect discoveries
• Hospitals were run by the

  church
• The church encouraged religious beliefs, which prevented people from finding

  scientific cures
• The Church stopped anyone disagreeing with Galen as they taught his teachings in


  School
• The church stopped what, meaning that doctors couldn't discover anatomy ideas but carried on with Galen's incorrect ones

  Dissections