Medieval medicine
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- Medieval medicine 1000-1500
- People who treated the sick
- Doctors
- very few
- Charged fees which many could not afford
- treated using Hippocratic and Galenic methods
- British textbooks eg, Compendium medicine (C1230)
- Islamic textbooks eg, Canon of medicine
- barber surgeons
- blood letting
- minor surgery based on experience
- herbalists
- in monasteries used herbal treatments and bloodletting
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- Doctors
- Belief in natural and supernatural cures
- natural
- Galenic methods (the four humours theory) as the Christian church approved of Galen as he had also believed in one God
- Charms, prayers and astronomy
- natural
- How did Christianity affect it?
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- People who treated the sick
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