I agree with the statement that there was little progress in the understanding of causes of diseases in the years 1250 to 1700. God is a significant factor in the slowing of progress in the understanding of causes of diseases. Individuals such as Galen and Hippocrates support the idea of little progress being made in the understanding of causes of diseases due to God and the Church. The Church believed that there was 1 God and fully supported Hippocrates and Galen’s ideas, which persisted of the Four Humors – which believed that if there was an imbalance in the humors, that is how you became ill - and the Theory of Opposites. They would typically shut down any other new ideas or ways of research because they believed that finding new answers to the understanding of disease was defying God. The Church also believed that it was the Christian Law to ensure illness was taken care of. Finally, Hippocrates and Galen’s ideas remained present in 1500 – 1700. …show more content…
In the Renaissance Period, things like dissections were more looked up on as Vesalius disproved Hippocrates’ past understandings of the Human Body. Due to the Church limiting most scientific progress and slowing progress down before the 1700s, people persisted in these two theories until the printing press was created. This broadened everyone’s understanding of England due to information being spread out quicker. This also allowed the population to follow Hippocrates’ proven work less and begin to have a more logical understanding of how the human body works. However, their new discoveries did not relate directly to the understanding of diseases and therefore, there was a continuity over the understanding of