Barber surgeons:
- Used big tools such as axes and saws to treat patients
- Had little or no training
- Used to remove external diseases e.g. ulcers
Antiseptics and anaesthetics:
- Believed wine could be used as an antiseptic
- Used natural substances e.g. mandrake and opium as anaesthetics
Dirt causes disease:
- Had no knowledge that dirt causes disease
- Lots of death from bleeding, shock and infection
Epilepsy treated by cutting a hole in the head of the patient to let the demon out (trephining)
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