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Did the church help or hinder medical progress in the middle ages?
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Did the church help or hinder medical progress in the middle ages? This essay will study the factors that helped & hindered medicine during the middle ages, & come to the conclusion on whether it helped or hindered more, & also how much progress medicine really did make. How the church helped - The church helped medical progress because it set up a lot of universities, this spread the medical knowledge & ideas of Galen, which was correct in some areas. The church also helped because it believed that public health was very important, they regarded fresh water a priority. At Canterbury there were settling tanks to purify the water. This purified water was piped to the kitchen, the wash rooms, the brewery, the bakery & even the fish pond! Another important factor that helped medical progress a little more was when at Montpellier, after 1340, students were allowed to use one...
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