Church help or hinder
Topic
Help/Hinder/Both
Explanation
New medical ideas
Both
Roger Bacon was a 13th century priest who believed that doctor’s should do their own original research instead of using old doctor’s ideas however his ideas were rejected and he was seen as a heretic as the Pope felt new ideas would challenge the Church’s ideas.
Knowledge of anatomy
Hinder
Even the most famous medical schools of Montpellier and Salerno, dissections were only described by teachers using recycled knowledge of Galen and others. Each student did get one body a year for dissection, however a teacher carried this out allowing no opportunity for further research.
Public health
Help
Many Churches and Monasteries had fresh flowing coming into them for drinking and cooking, this water was recycled to use in the toilets. Without the Church, public health would have been disbanded however they understood the need for clean water.
Training doctors
Help
Church leaders rediscovered Galen’s work and books and decided his ideas fit in with the Church’s own. To become a doctor, people had to go to medical schools, the oldest one was founded in Salerno in 900 where teachers read out passages of ancient writers however these were seen as fact so ideas could not progress but they allowed doctoring to resurface as something you had to learn from a school and not just pick it up.
Spreading medical knowledge
Help
After 1000, scholars began to be able to travel more freely, allowing them to spread medical knowledge.
Care of the sick
Both
The Church encouraged people to put their faith in God using the Gospels as a model for the healing power of God instead of using science. However, the Church were the benefactors for various hospitals, they ran the hospital however they allowed people to get treatment from doctors and physicians. These hospitals did not allow the wounded, pregnant or people with contagious diseases in, the Church did not heal many people but it did create a centralized place of doctors and
Help/Hinder/Both
Explanation
New medical ideas
Both
Roger Bacon was a 13th century priest who believed that doctor’s should do their own original research instead of using old doctor’s ideas however his ideas were rejected and he was seen as a heretic as the Pope felt new ideas would challenge the Church’s ideas.
Knowledge of anatomy
Hinder
Even the most famous medical schools of Montpellier and Salerno, dissections were only described by teachers using recycled knowledge of Galen and others. Each student did get one body a year for dissection, however a teacher carried this out allowing no opportunity for further research.
Public health
Help
Many Churches and Monasteries had fresh flowing coming into them for drinking and cooking, this water was recycled to use in the toilets. Without the Church, public health would have been disbanded however they understood the need for clean water.
Training doctors
Help
Church leaders rediscovered Galen’s work and books and decided his ideas fit in with the Church’s own. To become a doctor, people had to go to medical schools, the oldest one was founded in Salerno in 900 where teachers read out passages of ancient writers however these were seen as fact so ideas could not progress but they allowed doctoring to resurface as something you had to learn from a school and not just pick it up.
Spreading medical knowledge
Help
After 1000, scholars began to be able to travel more freely, allowing them to spread medical knowledge.
Care of the sick
Both
The Church encouraged people to put their faith in God using the Gospels as a model for the healing power of God instead of using science. However, the Church were the benefactors for various hospitals, they ran the hospital however they allowed people to get treatment from doctors and physicians. These hospitals did not allow the wounded, pregnant or people with contagious diseases in, the Church did not heal many people but it did create a centralized place of doctors and