User talk:Chrisalegria

Doctor Part 1 1.My character is a doctor. 2.The need for a doctor tells us that during this time period there were illnesses just as there are today and the citizens needed someone to cure them. 3.The doctor had a fairly high social standing. He has studied astronomy and can prescribe drugs by watching the planets and his patients very carefully. Due to his education and his diligent care he is highly respected in the community. 4.People cannot avoid him if they become sick or they could die; thus the doctor is always a busy man. He makes a good living and saves up his gold because he loves his riches 5.Some details about the doctor that Chaucer does not include is perhaps what kinds of illnesses the doctor sees in his profession. Chaucer is sure to say that the doctor watches his patient closely and carefully and prescribes drugs according to their symptoms, however he never states any of the illnesses that were dealth with. 6.My medieval character is a doctor. In the present day, we still have doctors. There are doctors today just as there were in the medieval times because illnesses still infect the population. However, doctors have greatly advanced in their studies, technology, and overall ability to treat different types of illnesses. Part 2 1.A Doctor too emerged as we proceeded; No one alive could talk as well as he did On points of medicine and of surgery, This is saying that there is a doctor with them on their journey, and he is well educated in his trade. For, being grounded in astronomy, He watched his patient closely for the hours When, by his horoscope, he knew the powers Of favorable planets, then ascendent, Worked on the images for his dependent. This section is explaining that the doctor has studied astronomy and after watching his patient very closely he figures out a diagnoses from the symptoms and from the planets and stars. The cause of every malady you’d got He knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot; He knew their seat, their humor and condition. He was a perfect practicing physician. These causes being known for what they were, He gave the man his medicine then and there. This section is merely saying that the doctor knows exactly what he is doing. He knows illnesses inside and out and knows what medicine to prescribe the patient. All his apothecaries in a tribe Were ready with the drugs he would prescribe And each made money from the other’s guile; They had been friendly for a goodish while. He was well-versed in Aesculapius too And what Hippocrates and Rufus knew And Dioscorides, now dead and gone, Galen and Rhazes, Hali, Serapion, Averroes, Avicenna, Constantine, Scotch Bernard, John of Gaddesden, Gilbertine. This section is going into specific examples to show the doctor's high intelligence. In his own diet he observed some measure; There were no superfluities for pleasure, Only digestives, nutritives and such. These three lines are merely saying that the doctor is very healthy and observes what he eats. He did not read the Bible very much. In blood-red garments, slashed with bluish gray And lined with taffeta, he rode his way; Yet he was rather close as to expenses And kept the gold he won in pestilences. Gold stimulates the heart, or so we’re told. He therefore had a special love of gold. 2.In blood-red garments, slashed with bluish gray 450 And lined with taffeta, he rode his way; 3.Lines 425-429 say his personality. He helped people feel better, and cure them from diseases. 4.Words that show his personality: friendship, perfect practitioner, ready, helped 5."grounded in astronomy" (line 424) "ascendent" (line 427) "malady" (line 429) "apothecaries" (line 435) "goodish" (line 438) "nutritives" (line 447) Part 3 1.He thinks he is helpful, and cures people when they are sick 2.Lines 425-429 show that Chaucer feels he is helpful. 3.Engendered - Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition). Practitioner - A person actively engaged in a discipline, or profession, esp. medicine Apothecaries - A person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs. Superflous - Unnecessary Pestilence - A fatal epidemic disease