{"product_id":"2940153769851","title":"The Family Doctor's Tale On The Canterbury Trail","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new book is the fictional story of a medieval family doctor who joins the Canterbury trail to pay homage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury) at Canterbury Cathedral.\u003cbr\u003eSaint Thomas Becket was treated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church.\u003cbr\u003eThe medieval doctors had very little knowledge of the human anatomy and depended on very basic books and drawings\u003cbr\u003eHippocrates always stressed that doctors should cautiously observe symptoms of the patients and take notice of them.\u003cbr\u003eHe also knew that diet and exercise and keeping clean were important for health.\u003cbr\u003eHippocrates also rejected all magic and he believed in herbal remedies.\u003cbr\u003eThe teachings of medieval doctors were based on Hippocrates’ bodily humors theory.\u003cbr\u003eThis theory suggested that every human body contains four principal fluids or humors, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood.\u003cbr\u003eFor a person to stay healthy these fluids had to be in balance.\u003cbr\u003eIf a person had too much of one humor they fell ill.\u003cbr\u003eFor instance if a person had a fever he may contain too much blood.\u003cbr\u003eThe treatment was to let the patient bleed to release the blood (blood letting).\u003cbr\u003eCauterization, a procedure used to burn the skin or flesh of a wound, was done to prevent infection and stop profuse bleeding.\u003cbr\u003eTo do this procedure, doctors heated a metal rod and made use of it to burn the flesh or skin of a wound.\u003cbr\u003eThis would cause the blood from the wound to clot and eventually heal the wound\u003cbr\u003e\"Wet\" cupping, a form of bloodletting, was done by making a slight incision in the skin and drawing blood by placing a heated cupping glass on the incision.\u003cbr\u003e“Dry cupping”, the placement of a heated cupping glass (without an incision) on a particular area of a patient’s body to alleviate pain, itch, and other common ailments, was also used\u003cbr\u003eThe heat and suction from the glass induced the blood to rise to the surface of the skin to be drained.\u003cbr\u003eThis theory had a close link to the theory of four elements, i.e. earth, fire, water and air, with earth present in the black bile, fire in the yellow bile, water in the phlegm and blood containing all four elements.\u003cbr\u003eWith his brother, he rode with Chaucer and his pilgrims and listen to their Canterbury Tales as told by Chaucer.\u003cbr\u003eHe contributes his own story about Saint Luke who is the patron saint for all doctors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTABLE OF CONTENT\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Prologue\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Meeting the Pilgrims\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 The Journey\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 The Ploughman\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 The Second Nun\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 The Villagers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Other Stories\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Chaucer Retraction and The Family Doctor’s Tale\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenneth Kee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157262287088,"sku":"2940153769851","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153769851_p0.jpg?v=1764060213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153769851","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}