Early Medieval Doctors!

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Early Medieval Doctors!

• By Rebecca Mike

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Table of Contents

• Welcome
• Medieval Diseases
• Treatments Surgery
• Famous Doctors
• Other Healers
• Fun Activity
• Glossary
• Work Cited Page
• Answers to Questions

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Welcome

• Hello everyone and welcome. Today we will be
  observing the insight of doctors in the early
  medieval period. The first medical school was in
  Salerno, Spain and then another in Montpellier,
  France. Also most of the doctors then were Arab.

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Treatments Surgery

• Treacle-common medicine for internal swellings,
  epilepsy, fevers, etc.
• Patient attend own funeral if dying of leprosy.
• Caesareans used in delivery.
• Dung Beetles
• Bat droppings

• Drape colored cloth around bed and person if they
  have smallpox.
• Banish them from colony if dying from leprosy.
• Bloodletting was most common surgical procedure.
• Plants

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Famous Doctors

• This is El Zahrawi, who they called the father
  of surgery. He performed a delicate surgery
  called caesareans. He wrote Medical Encyclopedia
  which contained 30 sections of surgical knowledge
  and illustrations of 200 surgical instruments,
  most of which he designed himself. First to ever
  use silk thread to stitch wounds.

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Famous Doctors

• Al Razi (Rhazes)- Famous for his study of
  smallpox and chicken-pox.
• First to use opium for anesthesia.
• First to use alcohol for medical use.
• Eventually put in charge of famous Muqtadari
  hospital in Baghdad, also a famous Royal hospital
  at Ray, Iran.

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Famous Doctors Cont.

• Ibn Sina by the age of 18 was considered to be a
  great physician and was summoned to take care of
  the king. He was known as doctors of doctors
  and also boy genius. Sinas most important work
  is the al-Qanun al-Tibb ( Encyclopedia of
  Medicine or Canon). In the Canon or
  Encyclopedia 60 drugs are identified and they are
  commented on application and effectiveness.

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Famous Doctors Cont.

• This man is Ibn Zuhr (known as Avenzoar of the
  West). He was the first to test medicines on
  animals before giving them to humans. Zuhr was
  excellent in the art of dissecting and knew
  anatomy in detail. Also he was the first to
  describe an tracheotomy.

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Other Healers
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Other Healers

• Folk Healers who are those who use herbal
  remedies and plants to heal someone. In the
  medieval period peasants and laborers went to
  folk healers because they were easy access.
• Monastic Medicine ( Monasteries) were of course a
  known healer. Before physicians came people would
  go to the church and get pray and help to be
  cured. In these hospitals they helped through
  spiritual and therapeutic.
• Miracles (as they called it) were performed by
  saints. People went to them if other remedies did
  not work, plus if they were trying to cure
  something from birth. 2/3 of the people who went
  to saints for help were peasants.
• Women, none the less, amazingly were considered
  healers. They could not go to school to learn,
  but they learned from husband or father who were
  doctors. The women were nurses or midwives.

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Fun Activity

• Ok for those of you who would love to become a
  doctor in the medieval period, here is a website
  were you have the opportunity to find a cure for
  your three patients. Just to give you heads up,
  they have some very outrageous cures, but hey you
  never know how they worked. Have Fun!
  http//www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/healtac
  t2.html

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Glossary

• Treacle (theriac)-a cure-all,40 days to make and
  12 years to mature.
• Caesareans- cutting mothers belly for delivering
  of baby.
• Tracheotomy- cutting hole in patients wind pipe
  so they can breathe.
• Summoned-ordered to come
• Anesthesia- drug to put patients to sleep so they
  will not feel pain during surgery.
• Bloodletting- draining blood from body, thought
  then was it cured illnesses.

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Work Cited Page

• "Surgery during Medieval Era." School History. 06
  2004. 19 Nov.2005 lthttp//www.schoolshistory.org.
  uk/medievalsurgery.htmgt.
• "Medieval Medicine." A Short History of Medical
  Careers. ThinkQuest.19 Nov. 2005
  lthttp//library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-6.htmlgt.
  
• "Medieval People." Life in the Middle Ages. 1997.
  19 Nov. 2005 lthttp//www.kyrene.k12.az.us/school
  s/brisas/sunda/ma/1wendy.h tmgt.
• "Medieval Medicine." Wikipedia, the free
  encyclopedia. 19 Nov. 2005 lthttp//en.wikipedia.o
  rg/wiki/Medieval_medicinegt.
• "Health." The Middle Ages. 1997. Annenberg Media.
  19 Nov. 2005 lthttp//www.learner.org/exhibits/mid
  dleages/health.htmlgt.
• Mann, Horace . "Famous Doctors." Medieval Islamic
  Cultures. 19 Nov. 2005 lthttp//www.sfusd.k12.ca.
  us/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Medicine_and_ Health.htm
  lgt.

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Answers to Questions

• I did most of the research online because I felt
  there would be more on doctors in the medieval
  times, then getting a book that really did not
  talk about them at all.
• The most helpful resource was the internet, but a
  specific website helped me the most and that was
  lthttp//www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Medicine
  /Medicine_and_Health.htmlgt.
• What did not work for me were the diseases
  because there were a lot and some have no cure,
  so I did not think it would be smart to talk
  about diseases that we know are impossible to
  cure especially with the remedies they had. The
  one thing I think that did work were the
  treatments, they really did not use a lot of
  things. Mostly things from nature.
• The materials really were easy.
• It was harder than I thought it would be. I was
  hoping their would be some broader info, but you
  really have to look and see if it was logic or
  someone making up a website with junk info.
• What appealed to me most were that the doctors
  that I chose to talk about all discovered
  something that we use today. Like Zuhr using
  medicines on animals first before humans. I
  really thought that was something America thought
  of, guess we are not that clever. (Even though it
  is bad to hurt animals).
• This topic to me was important to study because I
  have always wanted to work in the medical field
  and doing something about the way things use to
  be, I can see how far we have come and where we
  can go with medical stuff.
• I think what is educational about this project is
  you can see were a c-section comes from, who
  discovered this before that. If you like health
  and want to be in the health field, I believe
  this will be very appealing to you.
• A viewer should see as I have stated before, how
  something was discovered and where something all
  began and came from.
• I really can not say it is important to learn
  about this subject. If you are wanting to become
  a doctor or anything of the medical profession,
  you should enjoy learning about how it all began.