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Medicine 1250-1500 (Rational explanations for disease (Hippocrates…

- - - - carrying lucky charms or amulets
      - living like a Christian
      - chanting incantations
      - chanting incantations
      - self-punishment, such as flagellation - punishing yourself so God wouldn't
    - - trying to keep streets clean
      - bathing and washing
      - exercising
      - not overeating
      - bleeding and purging
      - purifying the air
  - - - either done by cutting a vein, using leeches or by cupping
      - different points in the body were used for different illnesses
      - occasionally performed by physicians but more usually done by barber-surgeons or non-medical persons
    - - either involved making a patient vomit or go to the toilet to remove food from the body
      - emetics and laxatives were mixed by apothecaries, wise women or, at the patient's home, physicians prescribed treatments
- - - - most ill people throughout this period were treated at home by a female family member
        
        the village 'wise woman', often the Lady of the Manor, would also tend to people in their homes for free
    - - received training but no medical qualifications
        
        mixed medicines and ointments based on their own knowledge or direction of a physician
        
        cost money (but less than a physician)
    - - no training
        
        carried out bloodletting, pulling teeth and lancing boils. Also cuts hair
        
        did basic surgery such as amputating limbs (very low success rate)
        
        cost less than a physician
    - - medically trained at university and passed exams
        
        diagnosed illnesses and gave treatments, or sent patients to the apothecary or baker-surgeon
        
        expensive so mainly used by the wealthy
        
        very few of them