The Greek medical foundation comes from a collection of writings known today as the Hippocratic Corpus. The Greeks certainly laid the foundation for Western medical practice but much more of Western medicine can be traced to the Near East, Germanic, and Celtic cultures. The Western medical tradition often traces its roots directly to the Ancient Greek civilization, much like the foundation of all of Western society. Influences įurther information: History of medicine Hippocratic medicine Medieval medicine also recognized that illnesses spread from person to person, that certain lifestyles may cause ill health, and some people have a greater predisposition towards bad health than others. Medieval medicine attributed illnesses, and disease, not to sinful behaviour, but to natural causes, and sin was connected to illness only in a more general sense of the view that disease manifested in humanity as a result of its fallen state from God. 1100–1500 AD), became a formal body of theoretical knowledge and was institutionalized in the universities. On the other hand, medieval medicine, especially in the second half of the medieval period (c. Medieval medicine is widely misunderstood, thought of as a uniform attitude composed of placing hopes in the church and God to heal all sicknesses, while sickness itself exists as a product of destiny, sin, and astral influences as physical causes. In the Early Middle Ages, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, standard medical knowledge was based chiefly upon surviving Greek and Roman texts, preserved in monasteries and elsewhere. Medieval medicine in Western Europe was composed of a mixture of pseudoscientific ideas from antiquity.
"Anatomical Man" (also "Zodiacal Man"), Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Ms.65, f.14v, early 15th century)
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