While the doctors we know today share some similar traits with medieval doctors, they are for the most part different. Medieval doctors were neither precursors to modern doctors, nor completely flawed in their techniques. Although their methods may be different, the goal of both is the same, to heal people. Medieval doctors can be divided into six categories. These include: empirics, physicians, surgeons, midwives, Church, and Dogmatists. Empirics were effective at healing wounds. They would …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

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