Medieval Medicine – comparing Muslim and Catholic knowledge and treatment of disease and infection

The Muslim faith have helped the treatments of affection and infection for umpteen geezerhood now some of their herb tea remedies are even utilise today the way they have helped everyone through the yearsThey have an worry in care that comes from the Koran which states that it is slap-up to help someone In need. The Catholic church has this but the Catholic church is more of a hotel than a hospital because only 10% of their hospitals actu whollyy care for the nauseousAlso in their culture to be a close sawhorse you had to be able to read and write and some knights created librarys. At this time in England to be a good knight you had to be able to joust and be good at fighting.But 1 of the most meaning(a) social occasions the Muslims did that the Catholics didnt do is sop up Greek texts from writers alike Hippocrates and Galen. The reason this is so good is because not all the anatomy stuff was right that the Greeks wrote but a lot of their herbal remedies and be restor eds were right. At the same time we were carving crosses in peoples heads the Muslims were curing people with actual cures.Question 2 out of 2Both the religions Catholic and Muslim have been a great influence to the treatments of disease and infection because even though in the Catholic hospitals it was monks and nuns curing the patients they did have some good herbal cures that had been passed stamp out from generation to generation. The Catholic did have its bad side because it was monks and nurses curing the puke most of their cures were supernatural and only 10% of Catholics hospitals were actually built to cure the sick 47% housed the poor and elderly(they provided no medical care)31% of Catholic hospitals were leper hospitals (which provided no medical care) and the other 12% of hospitals gave shelter to poor travellers and pilgrims.The hospitals back indeed were not the same as hospitals today. There were a lot of good things about Muslim hospitals that were not in Catho lic hospitals for example their hospitals gave a high proportion of hospital care also the hospitals were more purposefully built for example some of the bigger Muslim hospitals in cities like Cairo and Baghdad had hospitals with a big ward, libraries, rooms for resting, and a decorous kitchen so they could give their patients a proper diet.The most important thing the Muslims did that the Catholics didnt do was they had proper doctors at the hospital and in the bigger hospitals they even had lectures so they could train medics.Also some(prenominal) the religions did have some similarities like both of their religions disallowed dissection and because of that surgery was not considered a useful skill to have. Also both of the religions musical theme that theories were more important than practical procedures but one very bad thing both the religions did wrong was allow no criticism of Galen. Many doctors throughout the years of Galens rule over medical knowledge tried to launch new theories and some of their theories were actually right, but those doctors were shut down and thought of as lunatics because no one was allowed to question Galen and his methods.In conclusion I think that the religion that had the most impact on the treatments of infection and disease was the Muslim religion because they used more actual cures and remedies unlike the Christian church that mostly used supernatural remedies.