Life of a Medieval Doctor: Leeches, Surgery & Death | Sleep History | Sleep Story

In the year 1340, in a small stone house on a narrow street in Paris, a man rises before dawn. He puts on a long robe and a strange beaked hat. He gathers his instruments — a small knife, a jar of leeches, a brass urine flask. By midmorning he will examine the urine of a wealthy merchant, set the broken arm of a stable boy, and apply ointment to a plague sore on a child who will be dead by Thursday. He is a medieval doctor. And this is what his day looks like. In this slow, calm sleep history, we drift through the entire world of medieval medicine. We follow the doctor through his training at the great universities of Bologna and Salerno and Montpellier. We sit beside him as he reads the works of Galen and Hippocrates by candlelight. We watch him bleed his patients, balance their humors, and consult the stars. We accompany him to the battlefield surgeons, the monastery infirmaries, the plague-ridden villages. We meet the bonesetters, the wise women, the apothecaries who sold ground unicorn horn to dying kings. Settle in, close your eyes, and let The Midnight Drift carry you through six hundred years of medicine, suffering, and the slow strange progress of human understanding. There is no rush. The story is older than rush. 00:00 — Part 1: The Making of a Doctor 20:40 — Part 2: The Body and Its Humors 41:18 — Part 3: A Day in the Life 1:02:05 — Part 4: Plague, War, and the End of an Era Goodnight. #sleephistory #boringhistory #sleepstory #historyforsleep #fallasleep #relaxinghistory #bedtimestoryforadults #deepsleep #sleepaid #calmnarration