Surgery

Question 1

Humoural treatments

Answer 1

Medieval and Renaissance:

• Bleeding and purging
• Bleed using leeches, cutting veins, or “cupping” to suction out the blood.
• Purging done with CAMOMILE

Question 2

Barber Surgeons #1

Answer 2

• Not all were professional
• Conducted basic operations
• They were PART TIME surgeons

Question 3

Barber Surgeons #2

Answer 3

• Began to be licenced and trained in the Renaissance times
• Skilled barbers would remove cataracts from eyeballs
• Surgical tools would basic and dirty.

Question 4

Knowledge of germs

Answer 4

Louis Pasteur’s Germ theory (1861)