Medieval medicine

During this period, medicine began to be recognized as a profession based upon formal education, standardized curriculum, and legal regulation. In some regions, physicians were required to pass examinations before beginning practice. Untrained physicians were subject to prosecution and fines, and state licensing became common. Still, not all healers were priests or scholars. Women practitioners commonly treated female patients, and although scorned by the educated physicians, uneducated surgeons and self-taught lay doctors, or "leeches", were permitted to work on both men and livestock. At the time of the Renaissance physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. Many began to research human anatomy. Their discoveries corrected many of the errors that had gone undetected for centuries and were rapidly disseminated through the new invention of printing.
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