Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medicine Through Time:
Medieval/Anglo Saxon Times
- Public Health
- Massive decline
- No funding or power to maintain/build systems
- Didn't see dirt as cause so didn't think cleanliness was needed
- Books of Galen were lost - only supernatural ideas
- Rubbish, dead animals and excrement in streets
- Water contaminated
from sewage and
rubbish and human
waste from latrines
(toilets)
- Most people drank ale instead of water
- Growing towns later in Middle Ages increased
public health problems
- Cities and towns worst affected
- Compact
- Rich people afford better standards of living
- Many towns had public toilets
- Monasteries & convents had running water
- Influencing Factors
- War
- Halted advances in medical ideas
- Took money so couldn't be spent on public health
- Public health became less of a priority
- Government
- Many kings has a 'Lassaiz Faires' attitude
- Varying amounts by
different kings on
enforcing public health
- Christian Church
- Largest influence over medicine
- Only Church - approved ideas
- God caused disease as
displeased, or test faith
- Galen's books lost
- Held back medical research
- Pray to cure
- Believed should care for sick
- Discouraged challenging ideas
- Hospitals
- Didn't treat, just looked after
- Focus on religion
- Prayer
- Infectious or incurable weren't admitted
- Some built for specific infectious diseases
- Leper Houses
- Doctors
- Decrease from Roman times
- Medical training moved to monasteries
- Astronomy/ God