Medicine in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

4. Surgical Instruments in middle ages

5. Famous healers of the Middle Ages

was intertwined with magic and religion. A significant role in medieval medicine was played by magical rites, influencing illness through symbolic gestures, "special" words and objects.

joint repositioning,
amputation,
dietary treatment,
isolation of the sick and hot mineral baths. 
Herbs were widely used in the treatment and were collected at a certain time, in a certain place, accompanied by certain rituals and incantations.

Treatment in the Middle Ages

were:
tuberculosis,
malaria,
smallpox,
whooping cough,
scabies, various deformities,
nervous diseases,
abscesses,
gangrene,
ulcers,
tumours,
chancres,
eczema,
horny flames.
Dysentery, typhus and cholera were common companions of all wars, from which up to the middle of the 19th century significantly more soldiers died than from fighting.

the structure of the human body. Claudius Galenus was a talented anatomist who discovered the functions of the brain and nerves. He described some bones of the skull, collected information of the heart, studied arteries, the stomach, the small and the large intestines, the womb, the liver and the kidneys. His famous work “The Use of the Parts of the Human Body” was so important that generations of doctors studied anatomy by his works. The well known artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci drew viscera, limbs, bones and muscles and gave notes about them. Though he wasnt a doctor, his contribution into the medical science was great.