Barber-Surgeons



During The Middle Ages, Barber-Surgeons were very skilled in the ways of helping people. Barber-Surgeons were skilled in the ways of medicine, therapy, dentistry, and even surgery. During the Middle Ages, Things like hospitals and barber shops were both run at the same place. The hospitals were run by monks. In the hospitals, the monks were able to grow special herbs and herbals that had certain medicine that was able to help cure people that had diseases. Barber-Surgeons were skilled in many things, including dentistry. Dentistry, like many things at that time, was run by monks. The monks could pull teeth if needed and could also do surgery on the mouth also if needed. During the Middle Ages, if there was a problem with a mouth, dentistry run by the monks was the only way to fix it.

Barber-Surgeons were also skilled in the use of therapy. The monks most like every thing in this document, were in charge of therapy. The monks were good at diagnosing some medical problems, but they were rarely good at providing therapy. Therapy was used in the middle ages to determine medical problems and nothing more. Once found out, the monks would cure the disease through medicine, herbs, or surgery.Barber-Surgeons could also so Surgery if needed. Barber-Surgeons were capable of doing many surgical procedures to sick patient, including bloodletting. Most Barber-Surgeons had to become skilled in surgery through experience rather than formal classroom schooling.

Medieval medicine was very important to the ancient world. Throughout the medieval period, medical knowledge was based mostly based on thinkers, and Greek and Roman philosophers. Throughout both the Byzantine world and Western Europe the study of medicine caught the eye of many Greek philosophers, such as Hippocrates(460-377B.C.), Aristotle(384-322B.C.), and Galen(130-200A.D.). Things like this carried on throughout the entire medieval period. Works Cited
 * “Barber-Surgeons.” The Middle Ages, An Encyclopeda fro Students. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1996. 69-70. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.
 * Craes, Joos Van. “File:Callus Patient 17th Century.jpg.” Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundations, 2 Aug. 2008. Web. 9 Apr. 2010. .
 * “Medicine.” The Middle Ages, An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1996. 129-133. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.

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