surgery

• • Limitations of surgery:
  • Operated without effective painkillers
  • No idea that dirt carried disease
  • Could not help patients with deep wounds
• • Medieval procedures:
  • Bloodletting (balance humours)
  • Amputation (removing damaged part of body)
  • Trepanning (drilling hole in the skull)
  • Cauterisation (burning a wound to stop the flow of blood)
• • Barber surgeons:Would complete minor surgery on customers while cutting hair. Most were unlicensed and the surgery was very unsafe for the patient