Healers

• Wise women


  • treated relatives and dependents
  • offered restorative foods and herbal remedies
  • no qualifications
  • for poor people
• Positives/Negatives of Wise women

  Positive: accessible

  Negative: not qualified
• Barber surgeons


  • treated everyone
  • offered small surgeries (e.g pulling teeth, bleeding)
  • studied surgery and medicine at university
  • for the poor
• Apothecaries


  • treated everyone
  • mixed herbal remedies and prescribed poison
  • no qualifications
  • for the rich and poor
• Physicians


  • treated royalty and the very wealthy
  • diagnosed illnesses and recommended a course of treatment
  • have medicine degrees
  • for the rich
• Positives/Negatives of Barber surgeons

  Positives: cheap, had a good quality of surgery

  Negatives: not extremely qualified, not trained properly, unsanitary tools
• Positives/Negatives of Apothecaries

  Positives: cheaper than doctors, good knowledge of healing power of herbs and plants

  Negatives: not as skilled/knowledgeable as physicians, were not trusted to do the best for their patient, didn't attend university
• Positives/Negatives of Physicians

  Positives: more qualified

  Negatives: didn't treat people only diagnosed them, were expensive