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Did The Church Help Or Hinder Medical Progress? Medical progress can be seen as a change in the ideas of medicine, and how it is practiced. For example, Louis Pasteur's theory of micro-organisms (germs) causing disease, published in 1861, when accepted, caused medicine to progress and improve. Medical progress also means advances in current medicine in the right direction, for example Joseph Lister's antiseptic spray improved the surgery survival rate. In the middle ages, the church was society's most powerful figure. Each village had a priest who told the inhabitants how to behave and what to believe. The monasteries controlled education and medicine by closely monitoring what people read, the only libraries were in monasteries and the church set up and ran the hospitals. By the 1400s, healers had to have a license to practice medicine, this meant following apprenticeships and keeping to rules of behaviour. This was enforced by the church. The...

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