Discover the reality about
medieval surgeons - and no - they were not poorly trained butchers who amputated limbs with little excuse.
More is known more about medieval surgery and medicine than about medieval archery thanks to the medical writings that
still exist.
Featuring one of the largest displays of museum quality reproduction surgical instruments (both Western and Islamic)
ranging from early to late medieval periods.
Including instruments for bloodletting; drawing of teeth and killing the tooth worm; trepanning; cauterising; amputation;
arrow removal and much more.
-Live Leeches
- Facsimilie Surgical Books
- Surgical Charts (Zodiac Man; Wound Man and Phlebotomy Man )
-Jars of Surgeon's Medicines
-Examples of medieval battle wounds
Discover how particular illnesses and injuries were diagnosed and how operations were performed, including blood letting;
cauterising; the drawing of teeth and treating the tooth-worm; amputation; trepanning and the treatment of battlefield
injuries, the use of anaesthetics and diseases of the time
(Can be adapted for specific centuries, for example: 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th or 15th Centuries)
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