Doctors: Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists, & Quacks

Following are depictions of medieval doctors at work. I’ve attempted to categorize them by type (at least, as they can be discerned from their iconographical context): physicians, surgeons, dentists, and quacks.


PHYSICIANS

SURGEONS

DENTISTS

QUACKS
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice

Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts

Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800

Medieval Islamic Medicine

Questions and Answers for Physicians: A Medieval Arabic Study Manual by Abd Al-Azaiz Al-Sulami

Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society

Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon

Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

Medicine in the English Middle Ages

The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Medieval Medicine and the Plague

Dr. Medieval: Medicine in the Middle Ages