Impact of factors on the progress of medicine

• Individuals


  • john of arderne
  • hugh and Theodoric of Luca
  • barber surgeons
  • roger bacon
  • monks
  • apothecaries
  • wise women
  • Avicenna
  • Frugardi
  • Rhazes
  • Hippocrates
  • Galen
• Religion


  • 700 hospitals 100-1500
  • challenging Galen, challenging God
  • stopped human dissection
  • believed that God have diseases
  • care not cure
  • House of wisdom
  • Islam
  • Rhazes
  • good health in monasteries
• Government


  • didn't want to become unpopular from taxes
  • limited efforts at improving public health
  • limited efforts of quarantine in Black Death
  • no human dissection
  • no police force
  • 1371- illegal to kill large animals within city walls
  • 1388- illegal to throw waste in river-£20 fine
• War


  • learnt a lot from battlefield injuries
  • experimented on battlefields
  • John of Arderne- 100 years war
  • John Bradmore- invented forceps to save Henry V
  • amputation and cauterisation