Medieval

• Medieval ideas about the cause of disease and illness

  • God's punishment
  • Bad air
  • Stars and planets
• c.1250-c.1500: Medicine in medieval times
• Medieval Causes of Disease

  • Four humours
  • Miasma
  • Punishment from God
  • Position of the planets
• Medieval Treatments

  • Prayer
  • Bleeding
  • Purging
  • Surgery
  • Herbal Remedies
  • Theory of Opposites
• Medieval Prevention

  • Bleeding
  • Purging
  • Prayer
  • Self Flagellation
  • Quarantine
  • Pilgrimages
  • Good Smells
• Galen

  • Theory Of Opposites
  • Discovered body was controlled by brain, not the heart
• Hippocrates

  • Theory of the Four Humours - Blood, Phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
  • Clinical Observation
  • Hippocratic Oath

  
• Lack of Progression

  • Church - controlled education, banned dissection
  • Communication - no books, made it harder to spread ideas
  • Education - They lacked recourses and ideas