So were burns and wounds. Additionally, rhinoplasties were used to treat syphilis. Some may say that the surgeries were unsuccessful due to lack of experience. This is true, many of the surgeons were inexperienced barber-surgeons. Then, in the Renaissance, a movement began to train more surgeons. Guilds of experienced barber-surgeons began to supervise their colleagues. This may have helped improve surgery, but no matter, most patients died anyway due to postoperative infection due to lack of sterile instruments. Okay, we've covered surgery, but what if the patient isn't in a life or death circumstance? Doctors were only for royalty and the rich. Most common people, if ill, visited locals with medical knowledge gained from ancestors or experience. If they end up visiting a doctor, it would be a painful experience. Bloodletting was a very common procedure performed in sickness and in health. It was a procedure performed to draw out “bad blood.” It was done 2 ways, leech and bloodletting. The leech was only used for royalty. The leech was placed on the most infected body part. Bloodletting is the act of directly opening the vein using a fleam, a half-inch long blade, and collecting the blood in a bowl to measure the amount of blood drained. Other common ones include lighting a candle near the tooth for toothache. If you have evil spirits in your head, then you should undergo a procedure called trephination, which involves cutting a hole in your skull to release