Anthropology

in which he stated, against church teaching, that a foundation in anatomy had to be the basis for any medical treatment. It would be nearly another 2 centuries before large enough scale grave robbing had led to actual anatomical texts, but I credit him with being the first to identify the problems inherent in treating illness with herb (and worse) stew and prayers.

The church absolutely did obstruct studies of anatomical research, which is why grave robbing for fresh bodies was such a lucrative business. Eventually the church relented to the point they said executed criminals could be used for such studies, but by then the work was largely complete.

While I give monasteries props for coming up with the early technology that led to the industrial revolution,harnessing wind and water power for everything from mechanical fulleries to the earliest blast furnaces, please don't try to tell me the church facilitated the early study of medicine, it most certainly did not.

Even today, they're standing in the way of a lot of cutting edge research because of a 50 year old fetal stem cell line. That research is happening elsewhere every time a Republican gets into office.