Treatments available for ill people during the Middle Ages
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- Treatments available for ill people during the Middle Ages
- House wife physican
- Use traditional methods (remedies) for sore throats, stomach aches and temperature
- would also be able to deal with broken bones and childbirth
- remedies based on charms and spells
- Apothecary
- Trained but had no medical qualifications.
- The barber surgeon
- Practices lots of blood letting; can also pull out rotten teeth and lance boils
- Can even have a go at some basil surgery, such as cutting out bladder stones or amputating limbs
- no anesthetics and low success rate
- not trained and not respected by trained physicans
- Trained Physician
- Trained at medical school and passed exams.
- Diagnosed people using urine chart and astrological information
- Will be male, women would be very rare
- Will not do blood letting themselves, direct you to a barber - surgeon
- Can be expensive, you pay for each visit
- Follows work of Galen
- Prayer and pilgrimage
- many people would go on pilgrimage to a holy shrine in the hope that they could be cured of an illness
- Hospital
- Was nothing like a modern hospital, usually part of a monastery or convent because Christian views included caring for others.
- House wife physican
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