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The doctors In the hospital there were many doctors: this was unusual because in Italy other hospitals had no permanent doctors. Sick people were not treated by monks because surgery was considered a cruel and bloody skill, not permitted to churchmen. So it was practised by external doctors who also needed a special licence. The surgeons were divided into three classes: wandering surgeons, barber surgeons, surgeons who dressed wounds. In the hospital of Altopascio sick people were visited and accurately examined, with a scientific approach, different from the contemporary philosophical approach. |