A picture of bloodletting from the Middle Ages
Medieval medicine today would not be seen as effective. It was largely a synthesis of ideas drawn from the Greek physicians, Hippocrates and Galen, combined with religious beliefs, some elements of astrology and a degree of herbal medicine. There were some remedies that worked with certain herbs, basic surgery and practices such as bone-setting, but these were combined with whacky theories about the four humours, blood-letting and divine punishment. This meant that many cures for illnesses in the Middle Ages were useless or even dangerous.
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