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Author Question: How did monasteries play a role in medicine? (Read 1364 times)

hummingbird

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on: Jun 25, 2013
Hi , for my history homework i have got to do a presentation on how monasteries played a role in medicine and i don't have a clue what to write. Could you please just give me some bullet points of what I could put in my homework please.
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Yolanda

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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2013
the church invited beer for mass consumption. this helped in the dark ages to prevent prevent several water born diseases due to the disinfecting property of the distill. they would literaly make duck pond ooze cesspools into a drinkable liquid for the mass population.


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