Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Explain why there was little
progress in medicine during
the Medieval period
- The Church and religion
- The Church let people
believed that if they had a
disease that God gave it to
them as karma for their sins.
- People then became Flagellants, these were
people who went round whipping
themselves so God will forgive them for
their sins and cure them of their illnesses.
- This made people worse as they cut themselves
by the whipping. These cuts them got infected
which then made them die of infection which
hasn't been sorted out.
- Meaning there was little progress as the church
let people believe God gave them diseases.
- The Church ran the
libraries.
- This meant that they controlled
who read the books and learn
about the teachings of Galen and
Hippocrates.
- Only 1% of the population could read and write,
this was due to the Church controlling who
could learn.
- The Church also made it so the monks were the ones
that wrote the books. They wrote the books by hand
meaning it would take months to complete a book.
- Therefore slowing down the
process of learning about medicine.
- The King
- The King went along with
what the church was saying.
- No one else came up with other ideas about
how people got illnesses and how they was
cured so he had to go along with it.
- Because the King believed it other
people did. They though that the
King was Gods representative so they
had to follow what he believed.
- Because the King wouldn't change
his mind neither did anyone else.
- The King made it so that if anyone went
against the ideas of Galen and Hippocrates
then they would be imprisoned.
- Rodger Bacon disagreed with
Hippocrates and Galen and he was
imprisoned for the rest of his life.
- This stopped Galen's and
Hippocrates' idea being
developed and getting cures.
- Public Health
- The Hospitals
- The Hospitals were set up in churches
and were run by the church and monks.
- They didn't give any medicinal
treatment, it was all prayers and
herbal remedies.
- All these beds were packed next
to each other so diseases were
easily spread.
- The workers in the hospital then also
caught the diseases and died.
- This meant that as doctors were working on the
patients they caught the diseases and died so
they couldn't record what they found out.,
- Miasma
- Some people believed that the bad smells
were what caused the diseases.
- In the streets there would be everyone's waste in
piles in the middle of the streets and people though
that the bad smells were what gave them diseases.
- The germs would spread creating
diseases but no one knew this as they
hadn't discovered germs.
- Therefore slowing down
the progress of medicine
in the medieval period.