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• Physicians were priests
• Treated illness with bloodletting and leeches -
• Used acupuncture
• Believed to cure the body you must nourish the spirit -
• First to observe the human body and the effects of disease
• Believed disease the result of natural causes -
• Established the first hospitals by caring for soldiers in their homes.
• Built sewers and aqueducts to create the first public health and sanitation systems. -
• Emphasis on saving the soul – the study of medicine was prohibited
• Monks and priests treated patients with prayer -
• Renewed interest in the medical practices of the Greeks and Romans
• Bubonic plague killed 75% of the people in Europe -
• Dissection of the body led to understanding of anatomy and physiology
• Invention of printing press allowed medical knowledge to be shared -
• Thought illness and disease a punishment from the Gods
• Witch doctors used herbs and plants as medicines