Doctors in the Middle Ages

Health, hygiene, and well being had a very important role in the Middle Ages. If doctors didn't know about health, hygiene, and well being in the Middle Ages, then people would have never survived.

In the Middle Ages the primary doctors were women. Some of the healers were called physicians. Nuns and servants helped ill elderly, priests, and surgeons. They were very important because they were the only ones who knew about health, hygiene, and well being.

In the Middle Ages, people didn't bathe daily. But that didn't mean that they never bathed. They washed their hand and face before every meal.

When people had rotten teeth, tooth pullers yanked them out. They worked in weekly markets. If I were a tooth puller, I would have a very hard job. Since it is so hard and painful for people to have their teeth yanked out. I will have to deal with getting the person calm.

Not everyone in the Middle Ages had toothpaste. Only the wealthy people in the Middle Ages had power that was meant to clean teeth.

Doctors in the Middle Ages treated battlefield wounds by using strong iron pincers to remove spear tips and barbed arrowheads from wounds. They treated headaches by drilling holes in the skull.

The bubonic plague caused sickness and disease. This was one of the main conditions of sickness during the Middle Ages. The bubonic plague was so disastrous because it killed about 30 million people during the Middle Ages. It also spread around most of the countries and killed many people. It was caused by rats the spread into human beings.

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