... Centres for the training of doctors disappeared. 2) Roman public health systems collapsed 3) Many of the important books of the Greeks and Romans were lost and destroyed. * There wasn't a proper system for the training of the doctor and some people claimed to be doctors when they weren't. * Throughout must of the barbarian empire, the Roman system sanitations had broken down. Public bath houses fell apart and aqueducts were no longer maintained. New barbarian rulers neither had the Roman technical knowledge nor the interest to keep these things in shape. Medieval Doctors * The collapse of the Roman Empire lead to a chaos in the west but in the Middle East followers of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) established a new Islamic Empire. During the following centuries Islamic doctors made a huge contribution to medicine. * The success of the Islamic doctors depended entirely on the government, in those days the Islamic Empire was a single ...

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