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=**The Elizabethan Era**=

Elizabethan Medicine was administered by different people. Your doctor depended on your class and whether you had money to pay the fee.

at one of the Universities and the College of Physicians. The usual fee would be a gold coin worth 10 shillings - well beyond the means of most Elizabethans.
 * ** Elizabethan Physicians[[image:honorsshakespeare2/ssssss.jpg align="right"]] ** Only the very wealthy would receive the ministrations of a Elizabethan Physician who would have received an education

to the barbers with whom they associated and belonged to the Company of Barber Surgeons They were only allowed to pull teeth or let blood to the Grocer's Guild and sold sweets, cosmetics and perfumes as well as drugs The ordinary Elizabethan housewife used various herbs to produce home made medicines and potions
 * ** Elizabethan Surgeons ** Inferior to Physicians these had a similar reputation
 * ** Barbers ** The Barbers were inferior to the Surgeons, although they also belonged to the Company of Barber Surgeons.
 * ** Elizabethan Apothocary ** The usual route that most people took was to visit the apothecary, or dispenser of drugs. The Apothocaries belonged
 * ** The Church ** The Church provided some comfort for the poor
 * ** The local 'Wise Woman' ** The local 'wise woman' was often the first person contacted by poor people
 * The Elizabethan Housewife

The Medicine used to treat various illnesses were as follows:
> ==== Bubonic Plague was treated by lancing the buboes and applying ====
 * === **Bubonic Plague ( the Black Death )** ===

tried including tobacco, arsenic, lily root and dried toad!
> ==== Head Pains were treated with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and bay. ==== > ==== Vinegar was widely used as a cleansing agent as it was believed that it would kill disease. ====
 * ==== **Head Pains** ====
 * ====**Stomach Pains and Sickness**====
 * ==== **Wounds** ====