Here I will introduce treatment and health care to you respectively.
Let me give you an example of Britain's "not falling into the empire". The most striking feature of medical care in medieval England was the diversity of doctors, including men and women, slaves and freemen, Christians and non-Christians, scholars and businessmen, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. With so many people engaged in medical profession, it can also be said that the "doctor" in medieval England was not a fixed occupation, but a part-time job.
Although commercial associations have formulated some codes of conduct for doctors, there is no organization to manage the medical industry in a unified way. Most doctors are independent and have no fixed salary. This situation did not change much throughout the Middle Ages.
Doctors are mainly divided into upper class and ordinary class. Top doctors are mainly priests and ordinary doctors are mainly businessmen, but there is no absolute boundary between them. Documentary doctors usually have the characteristics of merchant doctors. Merchant doctors sometimes use some methods of priest doctors, especially in surgery. Businessmen usually practice medicine as members of guilds and also sell medicines and medical devices. They all have city charters, sometimes serving monarchs or nobles, and sometimes serving ordinary people in the streets or shops. They charge medical expenses for treating patients, including cash and goods, mainly clothes and food. Ordinary doctors often practice medicine by more than one person. In many cases, they practice medicine together as a family, including brothers, sisters, husbands and wives, most commonly brothers, fathers and sons practice medicine together with masters and servants.
Health care here is to introduce an important empire, the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine medicine is an indispensable part of medieval European medicine. While inheriting the tradition, it has made remarkable achievements and played a positive role in the development of western medicine and even the world. Byzantine medicine has preserved a large number of classic medical works and spread to Arabia and Western Europe for more than 1000 years from the establishment of the empire in 330 AD to its demise in 453 AD/KLOC-0. Byzantine medicine not only inherits the classical medical concepts and treatment methods, but also keeps innovating and developing.
First of all, the Byzantines accepted the idea that most diseases are not caused by God's punishment, but the products of environmental factors, eating habits and living habits, and believed that diseases can be prevented and treated, and the prevention of diseases should focus on health preservation. The Byzantine concept of health care was deeply influenced by Hippocrates, and its health care knowledge was not only mastered by professional doctors, but also understood by Byzantine intellectuals and most ordinary people.
Byzantine Dietetic Yearbook divides the four seasons of the year into four stages: dry, wet, hot and cold, and lists the suitable food and taboo food in detail. They are as keen on bathing as the ancient Greeks and Romans. According to statistics, there are 8 luxurious public baths and 153 private baths in Constantinople, the capital of the empire. Ordinary people take two or three baths every day, and there is a special room for steam bath. Dennis, a Byzantine historian in the 6th century, recorded a hot spring bath 0/2 mile away from Angalli City/Kloc-and thought that its curative effect was particularly famous and effective among countless hot springs in the world. At the same time, in western Europe, people are forbidden to take a bath because the Roman church believes that water can bring diseases into the human body through the skin and public baths make believers morally bankrupt. In contrast, it shows the Byzantine people's inheritance and enthusiasm for the classic health theory.