Middle+Ages+Letter

 Dear Pope Urban V,

I am writing to you to be your personal doctor. I am Guy de Chauliac. I am a famous French surgeon. With the Black Death having recently passed through the area I saved Pope Clement VI by telling him to stay in isolation and Pope Clement esc aped the infection.

Some of my background is that I was born in 1300 in Chauliac, France. I was born into poverty but I came out to be one of the best surgeons and physicians in the Middle Ages. Luckily I was able to learn Latin then I went on to attend some universities. After I was done at the universities studying surgical training and anatomy I went on to practice surgery in a city called Avignon.After that I went on to serve to popes, Innocent VI and Urban V.

I am also an author. I wrote one book called the //Chirurgica magna// which is about the history of surgery. I also wrote a little bit about anatomy that it should be taught through hand-on surgery. Another book I wrote was a textbook called //Inventorium sive collectorium in parte chirugicale medicine//. The textbook talked about the surgical part of medicine.

My style of medicine was different than any other surgeon in medieval times. My styles were often considered intrusive. My styles were actually intelligent because whenever I could I would avoid cutting the patient. I removed any objects in the wounds that were not supposed to be there and then I would add certain things too help clean out the wounds. I also established different ways of classifying wounds in the medical world. Sincerely, Guy de Chauliac