Who treated the sick in the Middle Ages?

How many did you get? Doctors Wisemen / women Piss Prophets? Priests / Monks / Nuns

Lesson Objectives To identify who treated the sick in the Renaissance and evaluate whether this shows change or continuity To consider the role of Paracelsus in the development of understanding of disease and infection during the Renaissance To consider which factors affected understanding of disease and infection in the Renaissance

Who treated the sick in the Renaissance? Who would people visit if they were sick? Where would they go? P.72 – 74 in the green books will help you Does it make a difference how wealthy people were?

Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim But you can call him Paracelsus Swiss Doctor and taught in German not Latin Began lectures by burning the books of Galen Said Galen and Hippocrates were wrong Said that illness was caused by chemicals in the body going wrong or attacking it Treatment should be chemical – destroy chemicals with chemicals Very religious – believed his ideas were inspired by God

Over all was there change or continuity in treatments of disease during the Renaissance? What changed? What factors led to these changes? What stayed the same?