Conclusion
Throughout the Renaissance, medicine was revolutionized because of the circumstances of those years. Groups of people and organizations also helped to start the “investigation” of medicine which resulted with medicine becoming a large part of peoples’ every day lives in the Renaissance and today. The large amount of knowledge gained about medicine during that time still impacts doctors today in how they approach medical studies and techniques. A huge hold back to Renaissance medicine was the church. The church was especially powerful during the Middle Ages. Part of the Renaissance was the over coming of the church. European society was let off the leash that the Catholic Church held it back with. When the Church lost the majority of its power, revolutionizing medicine became much easier. Through direct observation of the human body, advancements in medical education, and medical studies after breaking from the church, Renaissance medicine was able to be changed to the point where it still affects peoples’ lives today.
During the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Catholicism had control over all the sciences; one of these, of course, being medicine. People did not want to go against the church by taking the first step in studying real sciences, because they were afraid of the church and what they would do the them if they thought differently then the church wanted them to.
(Britannica Image Quest)