Did the church help or hinder medical progress in the middle ages?

How the church hindered - The church hindered by only sticking to Galen's ideas because they fitted in with Christian beliefs, & although this helped in some ways, it hindered more because Galen's knowledge of anatomy was innacurate, as he had studied the anatomy of animals instead of that of humans. Another thing that really did hinder was when Roger Bacon challenged Galen's ideas and was imprisoned by the church for heresy. This hindered because in fact Roger Bacon's ideas were more accurate than Galen's, but the church refused to believe anything, other than Galen's limited information was correct. And althought dissection was allowed at Montpellier it still hindered because the students never actually did the dissection, so they never got a good look at human anatomy for theirselves. The training of doctors was also hindered since the doctors could only read the manuscripts of acient writers, such as Galen & Hippocrates, whose ideas were limited (i.e. The four humours & Galen dissecting animals.) If they had dared question these ideas they probably would have been imprisoned for heresy.

Conclusion - I conclude that although the Christian church did help medical progress (i.e. Public health.) It mainly hindered by refusing to listen to anyone else's ideas other than Galen, whose knowledge of human anatomy wasn't always accurate aince he was only able to dissect & study animals. I think that if the church had accepted other people's ideas (i.e. Roger Bacon) then medicine would have made more progress.