Elizebethan Medicine

Medicine during the medieval era was multifaceted, relying on the skills of
several classes of practitioners. The ill and aged were treated by university
trained physicians, monks or folk healers, depending on the patients economic
status. Though medical practices and procedures in the middle ages are
generally considered obsolete and relying on herbal remedies, prayer, spells,
and incantations, there were also surgeries performed and cure perfected that
are similar to modern day procedures.

The first medical university was founded in the 10th century in Salamo,
Italy. Medieval physicians followed the Greek belief that the body was made
up of four humors-sanguine (blood), choler, phlegm and melancholia. They
believed that the primary cause of illness was and imbalance of the humors.
All the humors had specific characteristics. Sanguine was hot moist, choler
was hot and dry, phlegm was cold and moist, and melancholy was cold and
dry.

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