[bdeaner]

Galen was the Authority concerning medicinal practice for a millenium. The door to innovation was slammed shut by the "Church" and innovations were forbidden.

Your ignorance of history is showing. The inventor of modern anatomy, Vesalius, was a Catholic in good standing with the Church who was never charged with heresy for his groundbreaking work. His anatomical work became the foundation for modern medicine, overthrowing Galen's medical worldview.

The Catholic Church provided the theological foundation from which modern science became possible, which is why science emerged in the West rather than in any other, non-Christian culture.

I suggest folks read valid historical scholarship in the history of science by relatively objective historians rather than getting your history from anti-Catholic propaganda.

[Radix]

Please.....

I would say that Vesalius came along more than a THOUSAND YEARS after Galen had died.

Did you miss the point(s) deliberately?

The real difference between progress in western civilization and other parts of the world was plain and simply competition.

The Schism provoked by Luther just so happened to occur when your Vesalius was just about out of his diapers.

Rome discouraged medical advancements for centuries. It was only after Luther came into prominence that such as Vesalius could accomplish anything.