Medieval doctors learned how to treat patients from records
of Greek medical procedures. This was
made possible through the documents of the Hippocratic Corpus where they applied
the principles and procedures of examining the patient to applying different
remedies. Other sources doctors learned to treat patients can found in pagan
practices that involves supernatural elements but also the use of herbs to
treat ailments. Even monasteries
cultivated the use of herbs as well followed the procedures in the Hippocratic
Corpus.
