Middle Ages Medicine

Middle Ages Medicine

1. Monastries

   • Contained a place where pilgrims,beggars & disabled could collect food & old clothes
   • Healing believed to be the work of God
   • Had infirmaries
   • Had copies of books by Galen & Hippocrates

2. Almhouses

   • No Real medical treament
   • Set up for the elderly, pregnant women and the weak
   • Funded by the church
   • Relied on herbal remedies

3. Leper Hospitals

   • By 12th Century 20000 leper houses in Europe
   • Leprosy died out by 1700
   • NO treatment
   • Built to keep the lepers away from the town

4. Hospitals

   • Orginally funded by the church
   • Latin word Hospitalis meaning place for guests
   • 1st Hospital set up in AD331 by Emperor Constantine