Medicine, science, and technology was improved by the amount of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars, and inventors strained their bodies in the pursuit of knowledge and the better of the health. In Europe King Charlemagne proclaimed that herbs were the friends of physicians and not for cooking. In Europe food was so important to medical treatment that any illness could be curable by diet and not treated …show more content…
Ptolemaic Alexandria was a time and a place of change between equilibrium states between the Classical period and the Hellenistic Period. The tradition of ancient Egyptian medicine was maintained for millennia. Historians of medicine wrote the hellenistic writings. They wrote medical textbooks. Alexandrian established his own school of medicine. Even when rome eclipsed alexandrian science still existed. Due to dissecting the human body anatomy had started to evolve. The city alexandria was chosen as a home for learning. A lot of graduating people of this medical school traveled and practiced throughout the Mediterranean basin. Until late in the 3rd century the school was still going. In 389 AD there was a huge fire that demolished the school and its famous