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1
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What type of medical practitioners were there

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Barber surgeons
Apothecary
Wise women
Lady of house

2
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Role of barber surgeon

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Carry out miner operations and broken bones

Usually see rich people

3
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Role of apothecary

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Sell medicalises like herbs and spices
Visited ordinary people and gave advice on how to beat use remedies
They were the most common form of treatments

4
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Role of wise women

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Provide wisdom and skill and act as midwifes for family’s

Sold herbal remedies

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Lady of House role

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Provide basic medical care for family’s

Only had general knowledge

6
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What was dissection like in medival times

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They were watched by many people often other learning doctors to widen knowledge

7
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What was one of the main treatments in medival time

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Bleeding, this would be done by leeches or cupping

8
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How was illness diagnosed in medival time

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Urine or zodiac chart

It was hard, difficult and confusing

9
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Who was john arderne and what did he do

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Famous for astonishing success rate
And developed his own painkilling ointment which helped healing
He didn’t rely on Galen
Charged the rich and did the poor for free

10
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Who were physicians and what was there education like

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Male doctor is who had trained at university for at least 7 years
They’re training involved little practical evidence

11
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Who were quacks

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They sold treatments at fairs and markets with often no medical knowledge and the treatments did more harm than good