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GCSE History - Medicine Through Time Revision Notes
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Medicine ThroughTime
c1250 – present
, Me
Influence of the Christian Church c125
• The Christian Church grew stronger in the Middle Ages.
• Monasteries controlled education, priests and monks were
only people who could read. The Church opened medical s
where the ideas of Galen were taught.
• The only libraries were in monasteries, church sometimes
books they did not want people to read.
• Monasteries made an effort to provide clean running water
toilets.
, Me
Medieval hospitals c125
• Medical care for the poor came from hospitals set up by
monasteries, and run by monks and nuns.
• They provided “hospitality” for visitors.
• Genuinely ill people were often turned away due to fear of
disease spreading.
, The return of Hippocrates and Me
Galen c125
• Galen’s ideas were rediscovered. Church leaders looked ca
at Galen’s works and decided that they fitted in with Chris
ideas because he referred to “the creator” in his works.
• Doctors in the believed his ideas were correct and it was n
impossible to improve his work.
• Galen had great influence on the doctors in the Arabic wor
in medieval Christian Europe.
• Medical schools began to appear in Western Europe, startin
the one in Salerno, Italy. Translations of Galen’s and Hippo
work were accepted as absolute truth in medical schools.
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