![]() is a medieval medicine simulator.īecome a quack doctor stuck in a backwater village in the 16th century. Treatment of illness was mostly done with herbs and plants.Plague M.D. Medieval Doctors believed in the concept of four bodily fluids and mostly treated patients by balancing these as it was thought that most diseases were caused by an imbalance of these fluids. Medical knowledge and know-how were limited. There were not many medieval doctors and there wasn’t much advancement in the medical field during medieval times. ![]() It is pertinent to mention here that by the end of the 13th century properly educated doctors were produced and they were also exempted from different taxes due to the contribution they made to medieval society. Abraham of Aragon, a Jewish doctor was famous for the treatment of eye diseases.Johannes Zacharias Actuaries from the Byzantine period.Arnaldus de Villa Nova a Spanish Physician.Medieval Doctors were in demand and short in numbers and their education was very expensive and could only be afforded by the wealthy, because of this most medieval doctors were well-off people in medieval society. If a noble paid 10 Livre to the doctor, the king paid ten times this amount of money. So a rich noble person had to pay more than a poor peasant. Medieval doctors did not have any fixed fees and they charged customers accordingly to their economic position and social status. How were Medieval Doctors Paid *Were They Wealthy? As there were frequent wars hence the arrow puller was one the most used tools for pulling an arrow from the body. To clean the wounds medieval doctors used wine. A wounded man chart was an early medical image of a human body that helped in the treatment of wounded soldiers. The equipment included a wounded man chart, anesthetics, bloodletting tools, and arrow pullers.Īs bloodletting was the most common method of treatment, especially for balancing the humors, most surgeons and doctors knew how to use these bloodletting tools. ![]() Medieval doctors had very limited medical knowledge and used very few tools, however, surgeons, who were considered inferior to physicians, had different tools at their disposal. ![]() Patients were mostly treated with medicine created from plants and herbs. There was no significant advancement in the medical field, hence the medicines were also of a very basic type. Several diseases were also cured by the use of herbs. Other ways of balancing included drinking yellow lentil soup, and taking a bath with hot water or with ice-cold water. Medieval doctors believed in the four humours hence mostly ill persons were treated by balancing their “humours overflowing”.īalancing was done by making the patients bleed, applying leeches to their bodies, or by forcing the patient to vomit. How did Medieval Doctors Cure an ill Person? As doctors thought that bad smells brought diseases with them and in order to protect themselves from these diseases, they carried with them something that smelled nice. They also smelled the urine along with checking the patient’s pulse. In order to diagnose the illness correctly, doctors used to analyze the color of urine. Medieval doctors usually had a book of diagnosis called “vademecum” and a urine chart with them. This theory stated that every human body contains four principal fluids or humours, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.Įxample of a Medieval Arabic Herbal Medicine book used by medieval doctors How Did a Medieval Doctor Diagnose Illness? The teachings of medieval doctors mostly revolved around the theory of humours. Medieval Doctors Teachings, Humour (element and Body Fluid) The present-day title of “Doctor” was used for the first time during the medieval period. Priests mostly performed the duties of medieval doctors as they acted as healers.Ī medical school that was established in the 9th century flourished and by the 12th century, it had an organized syllabus and it started issuing degrees and the first medieval doctors were established. Dissecting a human corpse was considered illegal before the year 1000AD so doctors had no idea what was inside a human’s body!Īs this practice prevailed over a large part of the medieval period, hence it was thought that diseases were caused due to the devil residing in people’s bodies. In the history of Medieval Doctors from the early to late medieval periods, no significant progress in the field of medicine was made during the medieval period. So instead of getting better many patients’ conditions actually worsened during their treatment by a medieval doctor. Medieval Doctors had very little knowledge of the human anatomy and relied on very basic books and diagramsĪntibiotics had not yet been discovered and medieval doctors had superstitious beliefs.
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