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In Europe, [[Wikipedia:Charlemagne|Charlemagne]] decreed that a hospital should be attached to each cathedral and monastery and the historian [[Wikipedia:Geoffrey Blainey|Geoffrey Blainey]] likened the [[:en:Catholic Church and health care|activities of the Catholic Church in health care]] during the Middle Ages to an early version of a welfare state: "It conducted hospitals for the old and orphanages for the young; hospices for the sick of all ages; places for the lepers; and hostels or inns where pilgrims could buy a cheap bed and meal". It supplied food to the population during famine and distributed food to the poor. This welfare system the church funded through collecting taxes on a large scale and possessing large farmlands and estates. The [[Wikipedia:Benedictine|Benedictine]] order was noted for setting up hospitals and infirmaries in their monasteries, growing medical herbs and becoming the chief medical care givers of their districts, as at the great [[Wikipedia:Abbey of Cluny|Abbey of Cluny]]. The Church also established a network of [[Wikipedia:cathedral schools|cathedral schools]] and universities where medicine was studied. The [[Wikipedia:Schola Medica Salernitana|Schola Medica Salernitana]] in Salerno, looking to the learning of [[:en:Greeks|Greek]] and [[Wikipedia:Arab|Arab]] physicians, grew to be the finest medical school in Medieval Europe.

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