Treating the sick c1350
Physicians
Barber surgeons
Monks & Nuns
Apothecaries
Wise Women
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- Treating the sick c1350
- Who treated the sick?
- Physicians:
- Medically trained at university and passed exams
- Diagnosed illness and gave treatments or sent patients to the apothecary or barber sugeon
- Expensive and not many of them female physicians were rare
- Diagnosed illness and gave treatments or sent patients to the apothecary or barber sugeon
- Medically trained at university and passed exams
- Barber surgeon:
- No training, carried out bloodletting, pulling teeth and lancing boils. Also cut hair
- Basic surgery e.g. amputating limbs they were cheaper than a physician
- No training, carried out bloodletting, pulling teeth and lancing boils. Also cut hair
- Monks and Nuns:
- Ran hospitals using church donations. Looked after the poor rather than the sick
- Apothecaries:
- Received training but no medical qualifications
- Mixed medicines based on own knowledge or directed by a physician
- Cost money but cheaper than a physician
- Mixed medicines based on own knowledge or directed by a physician
- Received training but no medical qualifications
- Housewife Physicians:
- Usually a village 'wise woman' who treated local people
- dealt with childbirth and common injuries/ illness
- Used mixed herb and plant remedies also charms and spells
- Cheapest option
- Used mixed herb and plant remedies also charms and spells
- dealt with childbirth and common injuries/ illness
- Usually a village 'wise woman' who treated local people
- Physicians:
- Who treated the sick?
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