Medieval doctors

>>1473526
what kind of doctor? midwives, barbers, monks, and educated peoples in colleges could all fit under the term "doctor" for the time. each was viewed differently and had different levels of education/knowledge

>>1473535
Well, what kind of a doctor a nobleman would fancy?

>>1473544
probably someone from a college or who had been educated/studied. University of Paris was pretty famous for its medicinal studies

I remember reading somewhere that doctors weren't trusted by a majority of people until around the 18th century because of how unreliable they were. Is this as much of a dumb memey thing as it sounds, or is this true?

>>1473803
They were seen with the same suspicion a lot of people see Big Pharma or psychiatry.

>>1473535
obviously a medical doctor autisticus maximus

It's really pretty mind-blowing how bad pre-scientific medicine was.

>>1473866
It depends.
In some cases it was pants on head retarded because the people didnt knew better. "Looks like a case of demons-in-your-legs I need leeches, a priest, a female weasel and a whip!"
This sometimes wasnt even due to pure ignorance but genuine speculation based on what reverred people in the antique wrote (but who were wrong) and followed a certain logic based on some pretty big misconceptions.
(Miasma, the humours,sperm from the spine, demons etc)

When it comes to basic stuff though, like broken bones or afflictions with an obvious source they were not as helplessy underinformed.
We know from surprisingly good attemps of basic surgery even from prehistory, in the middle ages people still knew exactly what kinds of plants had to be prepared in what way to cure most smaller ills.

You would be a "physician" or doctor of physics. You would have to go through university and learn the trivium and the quadrivium and then major in physics, which is the study of "nature", that is pseudo scientific theories of Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen concerning the four elements and the four humors, among other things. It was probably like traditional Chinese medicine in that it is totally based on pseudo science, but somehow it works to a limited degree.

>>1473902
>enuine speculation based on what reverred people in the antique wrote (but who were wrong) and followed a certain logic based on some pretty big misconceptions.

Yeah, which really shows the value of science. Separating out what actually works from "based on respected authority" and "makes intuitive sense."

>>1473978
>Separating out what actually works
Good luck doing that while contending with the placebo effect and random active ingredients mixed into the witch's brew.

It wasn't until we had real conceptual understanding that we made great strides in medicine, and the single most important thing had turned out to have nothing to do with the treatments themselves: washing your hands and tools.

>>1473828
>medical doctor
and what kind of medical doctor?
midwives are a kind of
barbers performed surgeries
monks had knowledge and libraries at it's disposal for gathering and giving medical knowledge
all of them are "some kind of doctor"