Medieval Medicine

Shaan Sarode Ms. Davis English IV Per. 3 20 October 2010 concern of Medieval Medicine Imagine when a friend gets sick or catches a bug, they may have two different reactions to it. The frontmost is the realistic approach, which re-visits their recent actions and pinpoints the sheath of the symptoms. The another(prenominal) is the non-realistic, which tends to blame supernatural causes. mess during the gothic times almost always goddamned the supernatural as the cause of these diseases. There were also many limitations in the amount of scientific feeler because of the church.In modern days, we may take for granted the achievements that have been make over the centuries, but these break-troughs could not have been realized, without the foundation and work of scientists during the medieval time. Medieval medicinal drug affected all part of life in those times, from scientific to social, and in positive and negative ways. Medieval medicine had to a fault many influences from the church which therefore hindered its progress. Most of the treatments and beliefs in folk medicine were mystical or magical, and had its basis in sources that were not agreed upon in the Christian faith.Remedies included spells and incantations, but later these had to be replaced with Christian prayers or devotions. The church taught that diseases or ailments were sent by divinity fudge as a punishment for wrong doing, so many people resisted the explanations of grislyness. Therefore advancement in medicine was generally frowned upon. The main setback was that, scholarship set down into the religious sphere, and clerics were to a greater extent interested in curing the soul than the body. (Terry 1)As sanitation and hygiene worsened with the increasing creation in England and other parts of Europe, diseases were rampant. Medieval Europe did not have an adequate health system. (Odunsi 5) Edward the iii complained to the Lord Mayor of London Cause the human faeces and other filth lying in the streets and lanes in the city to be outback(a) with all speed to places far distant, so that no greater cause of mortality may arise from such smells. (Trueman 1) Some people blamed the stench of waste to cause illnesses.Astronomers blamed the planets and their un-alignment. Everyone had their own opinions on the national as there wasnt any hard evidence of the veritable cause. other dilemma to the people was the matter of how the diseases spread. As most of the population consisted of farmers in those times, they had little or no, formal education. So when someone acquired a disease, they went to their local anesthetic physician, which was an all-around doctor. Physicians were scarce, but seen as skilled people because of their companionship. In reality, their work was based on a very poor knowledge of the human anatomy. (Trueman 3) The affect of medical studies, cures, and its problems left society vulnerable to, in fact more diseases. As people were unawa re of the causes and cures, they relied on local physicians who werent exactly well versed. This may in turn resolution in a misdiagnosis and the patient ending up more ill or dead. This dilemma pushed people to seek their own remedies. The most interest part of medicine in the medieval times was the remedy and curing.These vary throughout society depending on your background, wealth, and religiousness. Some, more religiously bound doctors told patients that a pilgrimage to a holy shrine to show your love of God would cure them of illnesses especially if they had some holy water sold at the place of pilgrimage. (Truman 1) As one can see, any treatment that you feeling was right could have worked better than another, as cures were based on more of a philosophical look rather than with scientific back-up.Some weird cures were to live a candle close to your teeth to burn of the worms on the teeth. Another was to cut a hole in someones skull to allow out bad spirits, which was sup posed to cure their mental disease. All in all, medieval medicine had impacts on society, but was mainly influenced by the view and ideas of the time. Works Cited Odunsi, Yolonda. Health What was it really like to live in the snapper ages? Washington, D. C. Annenberg Media, 1997. Web.