Religion and medicine
Within Aelius’ Sacred Tales, Aelius shows his faith by trusting in his god, and refusing the recommended medicine that he needed. This resilience was seen even when doctors were requesting that he took their advice to treat his illnesses, seeing a steady decline in his health. Despite these requests, he persevered. This shows the power that faith and religion has had in the past, seeing how much more trusted and understood religion was than even basic medicines. This is interesting to see, since overall that viewpoint seems to have become less common. We definitely do still have people who trust in their faith over medicine, but as time has gone on it seems that things have flipped almost completely. More people are likely to trust medicine, and I think this is because it is becoming increasingly easy to understand medicine and what it will do.