Wk8_Medieval Times 1

During the Middle ages, also known as Medieval Times medicine was a practice that failed to flourish. This was due to the fact that it was not so important at the time. People living in the middle ages had other things to be more worried about. The more important thing at the time was the soul.
The soul, was a precious thing for the Medieval people. It seemed as if they were more concern with how the soul was doing than with how they were doing. As weird as it may sound, these people thought if they could cure their soul then they could cure any disease that they had.
The diseases that they had back then are now easily cured with over the counter medicine that we have now a days. For this simple reason medicine was not of such importance to the Medieval people, curing the soul through prayer was their solution for sickness. If any interest was put into medicine then some advances could have been reached and far less people could have died during the middle ages.
Although, doctors were still around at the time; it was harder for a regular person to practice medicine. This would also explain why only people of higher statues could practice medicine. Also, priests and other women would practice medicine at a cost. They had to do it a certain way and the women mostly only practiced on women, unless they were licensed doctors. Looking at all these examples of doctors and medicine at the time, it is easy to see why people died of simple diseases like the Black Death. Here is a link it is a bit more specific; it has pictures to.   http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-6.html