How doctors attended to the sick in the middle ages?

Answer 1

Basically if you were rich you would of go to a place which seems like a hospital in town and then they would check your urine and pooh and see if you have a problem or they can even cut one of your vain and let out your bad blood which is called blood-letting. Normally it is cheaper for the barbers to do it .

Answer 2

They would do something called "bleeding" out. Basically, they take a knife or sharp object and puncture the skin, letting the blood flow out. It was believed to take out the bacteria, and even though it sort of worked, it left patients more vulnerable (because they would get weak from losing a lot of blood) to getting even more infections.

Answer 3

Medieval hospitals were not places for treating the sick - they were called infirmaries.

A hospital was essentially a guest-house (from the Latin hospitium, hospitality or guest accommodation). They covered a wide range of different types: monastic hospitals which offered short periods of free accommodation for travellers, with food, a bed and a chapel for offering prayers; leper hospitals where the unfortunate victims could live together, pray and receive donations from well-wishers; pilgrim hospitals where very primitive sleeping arrangements were often found (piles of straw on a stone floor), but food was provided and the pilgrims had access to a chapel. There were also Church-run hospitals for old and infirm poor people, just like modern almshouses.

Leper hospitals were always just outside the walls of a town, since lepers were not permitted to mix with ordinary folk, but always on a main road so that passers-by might leave donations of food or money. At the leper hospital on the northern outskirts of Newport in Essex, a large stone with a hollowed-out top still stands near the boundary of the site, where medieval travellers could leave a few coins to be collected later by the staff.

Every monastery also had its own infirmary, which was intended to treat sick monks and look after elderly and infirm monks. It was often constructed around a central courtyard or garden and had a small chapel attached so that the patients could still follow the daily routine of services if they were able.

Otherwise infirmaries were quite rare.

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Answer 4

While child birth was generally attended by midwives, treatment of the sick depended highly upon their wealth and status. There were doctors, educated in university, but only the very rich could afford to contract their services. Of lessor renown were surgeons and barbers, who did little more than extract teeth or blood.

Even the university-educated physicians knew very little about what was really going on within the human body. Consequently, the most commonly remembered method of treatment was to remove blood from the sick person, by using leeches, hoping to take away the disease along with the "bad" blood.

What was really being attempted by the medical practitioners was to try and balance the "humors" in the body. The humors represented Earth, Air, Water and Fire and were present in the human body as black bile, blood, phlegm and yellow bile in that order. It was thought that if the person was ill, it was because the four elements were out of balance. This would be treated by increasing humors through diet or drink or decreasing them through hot bath (to make the patient sweat), giving them chemicals or plant extracts to purge their intestines; make them regurgitate (vomit); or as mentioned above, bleed them.

There were apothecaries, which were like the drug stores of today in that people would purchase from them various medicines, extracts and elixirs in hopes of curing their ills. It is worth noting that apothecaries also sold other items as well, since they were considered part of the grocer's guild and not specifically part of the medical community.

Another person you could go to for treatment of your ills was the local "wise woman" who was gathered and dispensed herbs and potions.

Answer 5

they did not.....sick in the middle ages are not considered as patients as they are nearingold age.doctorsdo nothave the time, neither do they have the resources to serve a population of 7 billion. therefore, all the doctorsacrossthe world have agreed to a pact, according to which they are not allowed to attend the sick in the middle ages, this is primarily because the youth is the priority at this moment as they are the future of the society, not the middle-aged and the old people.

Answer 6

Not much. There was no science and the body wasn't understood very well. A doctor couldn't look at a body that was undressed. Many "treatments" developed, but at times the cure was worse than the disease.

Answer 7

yes but that s if you were rich and had money to get a doctor

Answer 8

What they would do is just let people die or they would go looking for plants that could heip save people.

Answer 9

the church