Welcome to Medieval Medicine 101
A mouse head a day keeps the doctor away
Good morning class! Now that you’re done with your morning prayers and other grunge work, we can start day one of this most important class. You’ve chosen to become life-saving physicians. You could do anything with your lives. Make mad money as a merchant. Be a traveling entertainer. Settle down in your hometown village and do whatever your parents did. But no, you’re here instead. Ready to start your journey to become medieval doctors. Today, I’ll just give you an overview of the key things you’ll be learning in this class.
Anythings goes
I mean it. Literally anything is possible when you do medicine right now. We know so little but claim to know so much. You want to put leeches on her hand to cure a migraine? Try it. Extra mice in the store cupboard? Crush their little skulls to make a tincture that cures hair-loss. Someone having night terrors? Stick that mandrake under their bed while having them chew on chicken gizzards. There are literally no wrong answers, because we don’t have all the answers when it comes to the human body beyond the fact that everyone is one of four humors. That’s why the world needs you and your imagination to come up with cures for every ailment imaginable.
