![]() ![]() Any view different from the established Roman Catholic view was labeled heresy and punished accordingly. The Roman Catholic Church effectively dominated what direction the medical world took. The Church quickly gained converts – and power – throughout Western Europe. ![]() The center of Western learning shifted to Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which had been Christian since the 4th century AD, with the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine. ![]() Medical knowledge stagnated in the Middle Ages and did not develop until the 17 th/18 th centuries. The Ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians had pushed forward medical knowledge, but after the demise of these civilizations, artistic, cultural, and scientific outputs were sadly lacking when compared to both earlier and later times. “The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome” ended when Rome fell to Germanic tribes in the 5th century AD. ![]()
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