Homework - Religion.

9/26/2014

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Well done with the homework task last week, the answers have been fantastic.

This weeks homework is to take a look at the PPT on the website and say why 'Religion' (A factor) was a limitation (hinder) on medical progress.

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Holly

9/30/2014 12:52:55 am

Why was Religion a limitation on medical progress?
Religion was a major role in curing and preventing disease. Once medicine took huge leaps it seemed that society had to choose between physicians and the Asclepeia. The Asclepeias were built for people who were ill. The buildings were like temples and people who were in ill health went there to bathe, sleep and meditate. If you did go there you had to leave offerings for Asclepios. Patients mainly went there to sleep as it was believed you would be cured as you slept because the God, Asclepios, would cure you. As this was free and something easy to do for people in poor health it created a limitation of medicine and caused regression. Medical attention was expensive and only for potentially the rich who depending on their own beliefs either used physicians or the God Asclepios. Religion had been a big part of society and culture for long time so once medical treatments had developed lot of people weren’t interested as they believed they already had a way to prevent disease, they didn’t think a more expensive way was any better.

Toluwa

10/2/2014 12:29:58 am

Religion was an important cause to avoid diseases. during the ancient societies they had a massive believe that spirits and Gods were present in their disease. Some of them also believe it was some kind of punishment for not obeying the Gods. They had something which was in control of them called the four humours which was a diseases or abilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of the four humours. These deficits were thought to be caused by vapours inhaled or absorbed by the body. The four humours are black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. The main reason for the four humours shows nutrition, growth and metabolism of the organism. They originate in the digestive process. In some ways religion has hindered medicine because the Church believed that God caused and cured disease. there was a temple also made called asclepeia this was a place where people with poor health used to come to bathe, sleep and meditate. patients also slept in a holy place called the abaton of the temple this is where the God and his daughter come with two snakes to heal the patients.

Kiera.T

10/2/2014 02:45:19 am

Religion made a huge impact on medicine throughout history, and not always in good ways. Many time eras through time based their knowledge about illness and disease on their beliefs about religion. This caused problems; they could not learn the real causes of disease and find cures because they believed religion was the only thing causing and curing things. Take the prehistoric times for instance, they believed that illness was caused by supernatural causes, such as angry gods or evil spirits. So they would pray to the gods hoping for forgiveness and health instead of using their knowledge and common sense to try and cure the patient. This held their knowledge back greatly because they believed they already knew the answers, they were not looking for new discoveries, meaning none were found.

Katie H

10/2/2014 08:56:16 am

Religion made a huge impact on medicine over time as it made doctors and people believe that if they turned to the gods for help to cure them. They also believed that if they had sinned the gods would punish them by giving them diseases. This turned doctors away from thinking of natural theories when they would think of supernatural remedies. They would pray to the Gods to insure they don't get ill in the first place. Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans were strong believers in a higher power however they would still think of some natural remedies for example: Hippocrates and the theory of the four humours was a huge factor in the history of medicine and changed the way people viewed the human body and how diseases occured.

lucie

10/2/2014 05:28:31 pm

Religion made a huge impact on medicine as it changed how they treated religion.
In prehistoric times the treatments were spiritual based and highly primitive such as trepanning this was how they cut a hole in the head to release evil spirits. Also they had witch doctors that would speak to gods.
In Egyptian times if they didn’t have their beliefs then they wouldn’t have learnt so much about the human body as they would dissect the body to get out: the liver, the intestines, stomach. They also execrated the brain through the nose. They also learnt how to preserve a body due to this from making mummies. However they still believed in gods and blamed them for disease.
Greek times were highly advanced as they stopped believing in gods as a cause and started to observe the human body. Hippocrates believed in the 4 humours (black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm) although he was wrong it leaded to the first real documents of disease and causes. From this they were able to tie disease to weather like when it was cold you would get a cold and the way to cure it was to heat them up.

Yasmin

10/3/2014 04:51:22 am

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and even the Romans believed that religion aided the development of medical treatment.

Religious cults such as, the cult of Aclepious provided medical treatment for those otherwise would not be able to afford treatments much like the aid groups we have this day and age.

However religion can be said to have limited medical progression at this time.For example the churches used the theory's of Hippocrates and Galen and for centuries, nobody dared to challenge or correct the errors as the church taught that these theory's where the words of God.
As a result medical knowledge stagnated to some extent.

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