The job that I found the worst in medieval has to be the barber surgeon. I can't stand blood and guts, so that job was definitely the worst. The smell of the room after a surgery; I can't even begin to imagine it. I guess that doctors today would probably be fine with this job, but back then they had no idea what they were doing. Their materials weren't very clean, and the people who had surgeries had to be in a ton of pain through the whole thing. Even if they weren't in pain, the sound that the materials made was disgusting. They did many amputations which is nasty because they didn't have a lot of good bandages, and some people probably bled to death.
The other disgusting part of their job is they had to shove a tube up someone's butt. They thought that to get medicine into the stomach, it was easier to put it up through the butt. That is totally nasty. What I want to know is where people come up with these ideas. "Well Bob, I bet if you stick a tube up someone's butt, the medicine will get to them faster." Do we eat from our butt, no I don't think so, so why should they try and put medicine up someone's butt.
The way they got their supplies was pretty gross too. One of the supplies that was used to cure diseases was leeches. The leeches were said to remove the "bad blood" from the body. Women had to walk bare-legged into swamps and marshes, and when the leeches bit them, they took the leeches off and gave them to the doctors.
All in all, the whole medicine field was disgusting. The way they got the medicine, the way they put the medicine in, and the way they cut into people was just nasty. I would probably kill myself rather than do that job. After all, it would be good practice.
No comments:
Post a Comment