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History- Religion and medicine
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Key points on how religion affected medicine through time (GCSE history paper 1).
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History- Religion and medicine
Prehistoric
Evil spirits caused disease
Medicine men
Trephining let them out
Ancient Egypt
Embalming
Allowed them to identify heart, pulse, brain, liver, lungs and blood
Didn't like dissection
People needed their bodies for the after life
Ancient Greece
Asclepion
Asclepius (God of healing) and daughters visit and cure people
Baths and gymnasium
Romans
Galen proved the brain controlled the body
All his work became famous
All ideas widely accepted and not questioned
Got things wrong due to dissecting animals
Galen's theories fit with religion
Body fitted together as a whole and perfectly designed
Middle Ages
Galen could not be questioned
Dissection banned
1 allowed per year
New research discouraged
Church controlled education and books
Taught superstitious ideas
Doctors were trained in the ideas of Galen
Black death a punishment from God
Flagellants whipped themselves
Church set up universities to train doctors
19th Century
Simpson discovers chloroform
Christians said pain is given by God and disagreed with the use of anaesthetics.
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