How did the Middle Ages halt medical progression in Europe?

Poor communication
1. Due to wars, travel was dangerous
  1. This meant that many doctors couldn't travel to share their ideas or theories
Education
1. Training of doctors was abandoned as money was focused on armies to participate in wars
Religion
1. The rise of Christianity
  1. People were taught that God, planets and Satan affected their health rather than the logical explanations favoured by the Romans
2. The English Church
  1. They disagreed with the ideas of both Galen and Hippocrates and therefore banned many of their books
  2. Human dissection was banned by the church, meaning that nobody could improve or correct Galen's work
War
1. The collapse of the Roman Empire led to wars that destroyed many universities and libraries that contained Galen/ Hippocrates' work
  1. This meant much of the knowledge gathered by Roman and Greek doctors was lost
  2. Some of Galen's work, however, was translated into Arabic and saved
2. Many Roman people were killed, meaning that there was no one left with the knowledge to rebuild or repair much of the Roman infrastructure
Government
1. After the fall of the Roman Empire, there were many little villages and towns rather than big cities
  1. This means that there was little need/ focus on public health systems
2. No governments had a taxation system like the Romans which could be used to fund public projects

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