Middle Ages. Advances in technologies and education about the body have helped in charging the medical field. This paper will examine physicians, diseases, and cures of the Middle Ages.

Not much was known about the ways that the body worked during this time period. It evolved with surgeries and other studies of the human body. Several major diseases plagued the Medieval Century. However, there were also many cures, even if some of them didn't work very well. In conclusion, the medical field advanced during the Middle Ages and ultimately helped the medical field of today.

Medicine has changed greatly since the

Middle Ages. Advances in technologies and education about the body have helped in changing the medical field. This paper will examine physicians, diseases, and cures of the Middle Ages.

Due to the fact that diseases plagued the Middle Ages, physicians and surgeons were in extreme demand. Most physicians studied at prestigi

Finally, the worst disease of the Middle Ages was the Bubonic Plague. The Plague started out with flu symptoms, but would end in death. The disease would last four to seven days and had a fatality rate of fifty to eighty percent (Medieval Medicine, p6; Death Defined, p1).

Medicine has changed greatly since the

Surgeons, during this time began to advance in their knowledge. The Middle Ages was a brutal time. It had many wars, along with wars come many sharp objects. This leads to many test subjects to help with the surgery discoveries. Because of this there was practice and observation the surgical field advanced. Surprisingly, many of the operations performed had great success. A large number of these operations used the soporforic sponge. The soporforic sponge was an early edition of anesthetic. One of the famous surgeons of the time, Roger of Salerno, dealt with the lesions of bones, wounds in the intestines, cataracts, and head wounds (Medieval Medicine, p2).

There were six main groups in which prescriptions showed the roles that magic and superstition played in the "healing" process. First, prayers, invocations, and incantations involved in the picking and preparation of herbal remedies. Second, the usage of prayers and other religious rites over the patient was applied, or were written down and used as amulets and charms that were applied to specific parts of the body. Third, the use of powers of exorcism to expel evil spirits was used in healing. Next, narrative charms concerning legendary people that supposedly suffered from the same disease as the patient was employed. Then, the use of material objects, such as stones, plants and animals were employed. These were used for comfort, as personal charms. Finally, the transference of diseases to objects was also used to cure a patient (Rubin, p111-112).

If the magic or superstitions didn't cure the patient there was always cupping. Cupping would begin by taking a heated cup of flint glass and it was placed on the skin. It would create a vacuum that would pull the blood to the surface, showing that there was bad blood in the body. Slowly the cup was removed. Then there would be a bloodletting session (Wilbur, p 117).

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