500+-+1400+AD+-+The+Middle+Ages

1) Religion was a large portion of the medical field in the middle ages. 2) Illness was considered to be a punishment by god. 3) Doctors in the middle ages were usually priests or religious scholars. 4) Clotting blood was conducted by placing leeches on the skin. 5) Surgery was a crude practice but operations such as amputations, setting broken bones, replacing broken bones, and binding wounds were relatively common. 6) Opium was used as an anesthetic while wounds were cleaned with wine. 7) Only treatments for things like the plague were superstitious remedies, prayer, herbal medicine, and recipes for clearing the air of miasma or poison. 8) They made records of medical break thoughts near the end of the era the most common one was //Paul of Aegina's Compendium.// 9)Constantinople was the center of the medical world the major contribution was by the First Byzantine Physician by name Vienna Dioscurides. 10) Crowding and poor sanitation among the monasteries caused disease and illness to spread throughout the community.

Impact of medicine on society in the middle ages: Medical treatment and medical knowledge had both a big impact in the medieval world. Unsanitary living conditions in the community caused illnesses that lead people to fall to thier death. Premature medical knowledge was common in this period, which played a role in the many deaths of the plague. The medical personell usually consisted of priest and holy men of the church. Holy men would tend to the ill due to the fact that people thought that ilness had a connection with there creator.

The role of science in the medieval era: Science and its succesors were rejected and looked down upon in this era. The church played the lead role, science was considered wrong. People believed that God controlled the forces natural and supernatural in a way that made science seem unreal.

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Medical Advances in the Medieval times: In 500-1350, medicine became institutionalized. Public hospitals and medical schools were built, which improved the medical field greatly. The first medical school was started in 900 A.D, Salerno Italy.