Doctors in the Middle Ages
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- Created on: 26-04-14 15:53
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- Doctors in the Middle Ages
- Studies/Skills
- Dissection
- Carried out by the teacher and observed by the pupils
- Criminals bodies
- Anatomy
- Internal organs, bones, muscles and skin
- Studied the four humours, opposites etc.
- Used the 'zodiac man'
- Dissection
- Surgery
- Not taught in universities - apprentices to other surgeons
- Pulled teeth, set bones, treated burns, bled people and lanced (popped) boils
- Military surgeons experts at removing arrowheads and repairing deep wounds
- Training
- The first medical university was opened in 900AD
- Books of Galen and other famous scientists used
- By the middle ages doctors had to attend one of these schools
- Controlled by the church
- Herbal Remidies
- Most diseases treated with herbal remedies
- Most treatments worked/were useful
- Barber Surgeons
- Cheaper than doctors but a bad reputation - a quack
- No training
- Red and white poles represent blood and bandages
- Women
- Could not go to university to train as a doctor
- 'Wise Women' - knowledge of herbal remedies etc.
- Role as midwives
- Studies/Skills
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