MEDIEVAL DOCTOR

WHAT A MEDIEVAL DOCTOR

WAS AND DID?

• A medieval doctor was a specialist who tried to cure

people’s diseases. There were 3 types of specialists:
doctors, monks or herbalists, and that you try to cure
a doctor was the worst of the 3. Since they were
based on amulets and dark theories related to «body
leftovers» which led to amputations or drains of blood
that caused the death of the patient. They thought
that diseases were a punishment for sins committed
and if people got sick they deserved it, still the doctor
tried to cure them and if this happened it was
because it was God’s wish
 CURIOUS FATS ABOUT MEDIEVAL
DOCTORS
• They not only fought against physical and mental
diseases, but also faced demons, witchcraft, the
signs of the zodiac...
• During the Black Death doctors carried a wooden
stick with which they beat the sick for their sins
• Doctors put herbs at the peak of the mask to
withstand the smells of the time
• Doctors covered the wounds of the Black Death with
excrement
CLOTHING
DURING THE
PLAGUE

As you can see this was the clothes of the

doctors in the plague