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Revista de Medicina y Cine
On-line version ISSN 1885-5210
Abstract
HOLGUIN EMILIO, Pintor; MARTINEZ ALSINA, Nieves; GUTIERREZ CISNEROS, Maria Josefa and HERREROS RUIZ-VALDEPENAS, Benjamín. The physician (2013): Medicine in the Middle Ages. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.2, pp.93-101. Epub May 17, 2021. ISSN 1885-5210. https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc202017293101.
England, XI century, an 8-year-old orphan becomes a surgeon-barber apprentice. Learning basic skills of this trade (pulling teeth, bloodletting and minor surgeries) but this is not enough. So he decides to become a physician travelling to Middle East, where the most famous medical school of the world was. In Persia, he will be able to enroll as student at Ibn Sina´s madrasa (Avicenna) where he will receive theoretical and practical training in medicine as well as other disciplines to become a physician.
Keywords : barber-surgeon; medicine in Middle Age; Avicenna; black death.