Treatment / Prevention

• Herbal Remedies
• Bloodletting 


  Cutting

  Leeches

  Cupping
• Purging to rebalance humours using laxatives
• Prayer- asking for forgiveness for sins
• Purifying the air by burning things or carrying herbs to prevent illness from miasma
• The Church had control over medicine because they owned most hospitals and monasteries were places where monks studied medicine
• Flagellation - people whipped themselves to demonstrate their repentance to God
• Trepanning - People would drill holes into their skull to get rid of the demon inside them and to be cured
• Physicians

  • Male doctors
  • Trained in university for 7 years using Galen's work
  • Expensive - only could be afforded by the rich
  • Used handbooks and clinical observations to check patient's conditions
• Apothecary

  • Prepared and sold remedies
  • Trained through apprenticeships
  • Most accessible way to get medication
• Wise women

  • Local
  • Used herbal remedies passed down from family
  • Midwives
• Barber-surgeons

  • Carried out operations in an affordable way
  • Surgery was dangerous due to risks of infection, blood loss and pain
  • Not enough money made through surgery so they also had to be a barber
• Monasteries

  • Used prayer and herbal remedies
  • More hygienic - they separated clean and dirty water
  • Cared for the sick and elderly
  • Monks worked there
  • Provided food, water and shelter to patients
• Lucky charms