Medieval Medicine.

Medieval medicine was kinda hard to tell if it was for witchcraft or rituals. The Catholic Church played a large role in development as well as management of medieval medicine. the Church's dogma turned more towards the philosophy that humanity in fact is damned but God has provided for man to sustain himself through the proper use of nature. Eventually, the Catholic religion would take over the medical aspects of the society providing sources for the rituals during healing as well as ethical values to guide the physicians. To this day we still look to god and medicine, both, to heal us. Greeks and Romans had done a great deal of work in the field of medicine, little of their knowledge made it through to the medieval times. A generally poor understanding of the body, a population explosion and unsanitary conditions in many medieval cities, made sickness and illnesses quite common. The worse illness was the black plague, “black death”. The problem was that everything was unsanitary and everyone was oblivious to the spread of infection. Not surprisingly, medical treatment from trained healers was primarily available to the wealthy, many times consisting of herbal remedies. Humors are complex surgeries such as brain surgery or the cataract removals were sometimes performed. Other medical practitioners were folk healers, monks and even saints. Women often practiced as healers, though later their role was prohibited. Hospitals first appeared during medieval times, after the jousting competitions or the fights of the knights and the peasants.