Med - Decline/continuity/progression

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Decline

Lost almost all medical knowledge

Church became powerful - no one looked for cures

Less trading, less knowledge shared

Dirt everywhere

Waste into Thames

Cesspits and wells close together - share germs/cholera

More densely poulated

No surgeons - hairdressers

Buckets for toilets thrown from windows

Lost any connections to Rome

Monks don't share the little medical knowledge that they have

Aqueducts all break - only Romans knew how to fix them

Continuity

Galen's books still read thanks to wars

Still believed God caused and cured illness

Towards end: Doctors taken into battle again

Hospitals set up in major cities in Arabia

Public toilets and baths

Some cesspits

Wells

Based SOME medical knowledge on astronomy

Sewers

Knew to avoid some areas - springs and wells carrying disease

Monks kept medical knowledge

Progression

East - kept books and translated them into Arabic

Extended government

East - studied Galen and Hippocrates, ans developed alternatives

Religion taught them to search for cures

Paid people to do jobs

Hospitals in East (more accessible

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