Health Care In Dark & Middle AgesHealth Care In Dark & Middle Ages

Mary Groomer, Graham Daniels, Tina Ruppert, Megan Zulli

• The population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and crop yields to increase.

• Catholics didn’t view the era as dark, they viewed it as a harmonious, productive, religious era. The Dark ages were also the years of vast Muslim conquests.

• 1216- Magna Carta is signed• 1382- Bible is translated into English by John

Wycliffe

• During the dark ages & middle ages the only accepted Christian religion was the Catholic religion.

• Medieval lives in the middle ages were dominated by the catholic religion

• 476 A.D. fall of the Roman Empire• The battle of Hasting & Norman Conquest-

Saturday October 14th, 1066• The Doomsday Book- 1086• The Hundred years War- 1337 to 1453• The Black Death- 1348 to 1350• The Great Schism- 1378

Hippocrates Sciepiades

Born: 460 B.C.Birthplace: Island of Cos, GreeceDied: 377 B.C.Cause of Death: UnspecifiedOccupation: Doctor

• First to describe many diseases and medical conditions.

• Given credit for first description of clubbing of the fingers.

• And important diagnostic sign in Chronic Lung Cancer and Cyanotic Heart Disease.

Beliefs

• Separated the discipline of medicine from philosophy and religion, believing and proffering that disease was not punishment of the gods but due to environmental factors such as diet and living habit.

Rhazes

Born: August 26th, 865 A.D.Birthplace: RayyDeath: October 27th, 925 A.D.Occupation: Chief physician at the Baghdad Hospital

Major Advances & Beliefs

• Provided first description of Small Pox, documenting that the illness was transmitted from person to person

• Believed that the human body was much similar to a pig