Medicine

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=__**Medicine **__=

During the Middle Ages, 900 A.D to 1500A.D, there were doctors, well not exactly doctors. There were barbers and folk healers. Sometimes nuns would be the doctors.

=__** Medicine, Health and Treatments **__=

The kind of medicine they had was different than what we have today. For medicine they had herbal drinks and natural products. They even had a medicine to help people go poo. Sometimes they mixed herds with ground, boiled worms, animal fat, blood, garlic, bones and finger nails. There were many health problems in the Middle Ages. If you had a fever you should let people blood let you but sometimes it would make you sicker. Blood letting is when they cut open your vein and let the bad blood out. If you had a bad tooth ache the doctors used to light a candle and set it on your tooth so it would burn the worms out. Sometimes the barbers would use pliers to pull the tooth out. The people in the Middle Ages thought that evil spirits would be following you so they used trepanning. Trepanning was a bad smelling herb that they carried around because they thought that would scare the evil spirits away. They also thought that if you meditate it would help you feel better. Today, people still use herbs for medicine because it works!

=__** Doctor’s, Tools and Hospitals **__=

The most common kind of surgery was bloodletting. After bloodletting they would put leeches on the arm to suck out the bad blood. The doctors mostly treated rich people because they could pay for it. The tools they used were called instruments. The only ones that did surgery were the barbers. The doctors were busy day and night. They did better with some diseases than others. If you broke a bone and it wasn’t set right, you would properly not be able to use that bone again. Some people even died from a broken bone.

=__** The Beliefs **__=

During the Middle Ages there were myths about health. They thought that if you did bad things god would punish you by making you sick. The cure was to pray and give charity to the poor. They believed that there were 4 humors. They were black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood. If you had too much of any one of these it would make you sick. They would try and balance the humors by taking some out. There were also 4 elements, which were air, water, fire and earth.

=__** Conclusion **__=

I think that the medicine is better now than it was in the Middle Ages because they had so many gross concoctions that it didn’t sound like it would make you better. I think that if the people had the medicine that we have today not so many people would have died.

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