The highest level of medical doctors were physicians. In the Late Middle Ages they had to be university graduates. Earlier, they went through apprenticeship, and there was a period of overlap, when the better ones came from universities.
There were surgeons, who performed surgery. They went through an apprenticeship program and were formed into guilds. After the Middle Ages, one of the most important English guilds of surgeons merged with a guild of barbers, creating barber-surgeons.
There were specialists of various types, including dentists and others. They might have included surgeons who never went through apprenticeship, but were trained to dress battle wounds.
Midwives helped with child birth. They were informally apprenticed.
Clergy, especially monastics, tended the medical needs of many poor people.
Healers trained in local and herbal remedies were common almost everywhere.
There were also apothecaries, whose main importance was producing and supplying medicine. They applied some skill as healers, and were the primary care providers in many places.
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amputation tools, arrow pullers, cauteries (hot irons) for stopping bleeding, bloodletting tools and use a mandrake plant to knock some of the patients out.
Important Doctors in the Middle AgesNameInformation about the Medieval doctorIbn Zuhr aka AvenzoarSpanish doctor who graduated from Cordova Medical UniversityAbraham of AragonAbraham of Aragon was a Jewish physician specializing in diseases of the eyeJoannes Zacharias ActuariusJoannes Zacharias Actuarius was a Byzantine doctor in ConstantinopleArnaldus de Villa NovaFamous Spanish doctorFerrariusFerrarius was a Sicilian physicianMoshe ben MaimonMoshe ben Maimon was a Jewish physician
the Doctor cured people and if people were sick he would make medicine for them in return of money.
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This is very obvious, they used corn for eating.
Most men and women wore hats to protect their eyes.
medieval atilliator makes crossbows for knights in the army. They are highly paid.