Various medical practitioners worked informally and were called upon when their services were required. These workers were generally unregulated and received no formal training. They included midwives, dentists and apothecaries. Some were attached to noble households, but most carried out their trade alongside another job, such as butcher or barber.

Although medical books were written in Latin, there was also an oral tradition where cures were passed around a community or from one generation to the next.



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