Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History- Religion and
medicine
- Prehistoric
- Evil spirits caused disease
- Medicine men
- Trephining let them out
- Ancient Egypt
- Embalming
- Allowed them to identify heart, pulse, brain, liver,
lungs and blood
- Didn't like dissection
- People needed their bodies for the after life
- Ancient Greece
- Asclepion
- Asclepius (God of healing) and daughters visit and
cure people
- Baths and gymnasium
- Romans
- Galen proved the brain controlled the body
- All his work became famous
- All ideas widely accepted and not questioned
- Got things wrong due to
dissecting animals
- Galen's theories fit with religion
- Body fitted together as a whole and perfectly designed
- Middle Ages
- Galen could not be questioned
- Dissection banned
- 1 allowed per year
- New research discouraged
- Church controlled education and books
- Taught superstitious ideas
- Doctors were trained in the ideas of Galen
- Black death a punishment from God
- Flagellants whipped themselves
- Church set up universities to train doctors
- 19th Century
- Simpson discovers chloroform
- Christians said pain is given by God and disagreed with the
use of anaesthetics.