Medieval Surgery
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- Medieval Surgery
- Barber Surgeons
- No qualifications and main skill was speed
- Tooth extraction, amputation, trepanning, bloodletting.
- Abulcasis
- Wrote a 30 volume medical book, Al Tarsif, in 1000.
- Invented 26 new surgical instruments and described many new procedures.
- Made cauterisation popular.
- Wrote a 30 volume medical book, Al Tarsif, in 1000.
- Hugh of Lucca and his son Theodoric
- Wrote book in 1267, criticising view that pus was needed for healing.
- Used wine on wounds to prevent infection.
- Ideas of preventing infection went against Hippocrates and did not become popular.
- Used wine on wounds to prevent infection.
- Wrote book in 1267, criticising view that pus was needed for healing.
- De Chauliac
- Book contained references to Greek and Islamic knowledge and quoted Galen 890 times.
- Wrote against Lucca's ideas- mainly why they did not become popular.
- Great Surgery-1361- dominated surgical knowledge in UK and France for 200 years.
- Book contained references to Greek and Islamic knowledge and quoted Galen 890 times.
- John of Arderne
- Most famous surgeon in Medieval England.
- Manual-Practica-1376- contained illustrations of operations and instruments. Based on Greek and Arab knowledge and experiences from war
- Used opium and henbane to dull pain
- Manual-Practica-1376- contained illustrations of operations and instruments. Based on Greek and Arab knowledge and experiences from war
- In 1368, he tried to separate surgeons from lower-class barbers by forming a work association in London.
- Most famous surgeon in Medieval England.
- Barber Surgeons
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