Thesis: Byzantine medicine was primitive and had no relation to today’s medicinal practices. Healing was based solely on prayer, witch doctors, and magic.
Byzantine medicine was highly known to be based on knowledge from the Ancient Greek and the Romans. It was noted that there was a scientific breakthrough in this time as the Byzantine physicians began to document and illustrate their findings, and what went wrong and what was proven to work better than before. “Byzantine physicians often compiled and standardized medical knowledge into textbooks. These books tended to be elaborately decorated with many fine illustrations, highlighting the particular ailment. The Medical Compendium in Seven Books, written by the leading physician Paul of Aegina, is of particular importance. The compendium was written in the late seventh century and remained in use as a standard textbook for 800 years.”
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