Medieval Medicine

The time period known as the middle ages began in 500 AD after the downfall of the Roman empire and ended it in 1500 AD. the middle ages was also entitled to the name “ the dark ages” as there was no significant discovers, no phenomenal art works were produced and no scientific breakthroughs or accomplishments. during the time period, no grate medical discovers were made but instead used past medical treatments from the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians the monks put this knowledge into their texts using them for their own purposes. there was many medicals options averrable for the wealthily people they could consult a physician, middle class people could go to a surgeon, the poor people would go to a barber-surgeon and folk could go to an unlicensed herbalists or a folk healer. disease and illness was very common and easily spread as the concept hygiene was as foreign concept making it very easy for germs to spread. There were a lot of medieval killers, the …show more content…
For example the medical stuff was based around Hippocrates (470-377 BC) theory he believed that body has four different types substances in the human body, theses were blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. It was believed that fluids gave off vapours which affected the person health and mood. Galen a greek Physician believed that to remain healthy their must be a balance of the four humours with in the body or else the person would become ill and possibly diseased. People could continue to have a balance of these humours by sustaining the right diet or by taking prescribed medicines. In some respect Galen was correct to remain a person must have a healthy