Medieval

• Doctors

  • ideas shaped from Hippocrates and Galen
  • used clinical observation to diagnose
  • trained to become a doctor
• Beliefs on Disease

  • punishment from God
  • The Four Humours
  • religion was a key factor
• Christianity on Medicine

  • dominant religion in Europe
  • churches were for spiritual healing not treatment
  • prayers, pilgrimages were common treatments
  • specific hospitals for specific needs, like leper houses