 Patients would sleep in specific rooms that housed relics of a saint and hoped for the saint to appear in their dreams.The church was often charged with the care of the sick, although students were not allowed to study theology and medicine at the same time.Statute 590 stated that students of theology could not even reside in the same area as medical students, because “books of the craft of the world should not be read with books of holiness in one light.”

These centers of health in antiquity helped shape the many new advances Muslim scholars would pursue in medicine.