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Medieval Health Care: Bloodletting, Primitive Surgery, and How Surprisingly Good Doctors Could Be Despite Knowing Almost Nothing

Published: March 1, 2018, 8:47 a.m.

The Middle Ages were a terrible time to get sick. There was no sanitation inside cities and hardly any in rural areas.\xa0The common way to relieve pain amongst sick people was to inflict more pain upon them, and then hope to the stars for a bit of luck....