Medicine through time
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- The church had lots of power during the middle ages. Monasteries controlled education and only what they said could be done
- The church believed that ilness was a punishemnt for sins and a lot of superstions. The church also had hospitals fo the poor.
- Books in this time brought together the ideas of Aristotle, Galen and hippocrates. The Koran forbid them to criticise the works of Galen
- Islamic scholars picked up and developed ideas from the greeks whom they admired. The most important doctor where Avenzoar and Ibn al Nafis.
- In the middle ages, surgery was held in such slow regard that many procedures were often left to untrained. barber-surgeons. The wine was first used as an antiseptic. Doctors read from the book of Galen while operating.
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