01-23-2023, 09:39 PM | #11 |
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Re: Medieval first aid name?
Cool. Those sound good
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01-23-2023, 09:40 PM | #12 |
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Yeah , perhaps you’re right
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01-23-2023, 09:45 PM | #13 |
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There was no formal training in first aid as a separate level of medicine and therefore no name for it as opposed to other levels of medical care. If you applied a poultice, that was herblore. If you just cleaned and stitched up the wound that was surgery, usually carried out by a barber. Most of the medical care that actually worked was little more than first aid anyway.
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But yeah, the entire [concept] of First Aid is modern, it simply doesn't exist until roughly the 18th century (and isn't called first aid until 1878). If you need a GURPS skill for it before then, it's the "default" to Physician-0 (or perhaps Surgery-0, which is what I increasingly believe it [should] default to). Periodically in history some army or other will come up with the revolutionary idea of actually treating injured troops, and may even train some people to do it who aren't properly educated to be called doctors ("physician" [is] a period appropriate term for that, though I suspect in English anyway it's as likely to be phrased as "mininstering" to the sick or injured) but it usually doesn't last.
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01-23-2023, 11:51 PM | #16 |
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01-24-2023, 03:34 AM | #17 | |
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We have pre-medieval first aid cited as though it needed no special explanation:
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Also, for RPG purposes, I notice that fantasy characters are often seen sewing up their own or each other's wounds ... whether this would mean they have a point or two in surgeon, or whether it's primitive first aid at work... How does "succour" sound (to be fair, wound dressing is probably better). |
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At least for medieval Europe, the rather fossilized Galenic medicine practiced by Physicians was probably closer to GURPS Esoteric Medicine by the end of the period, with a fair bit of Diagnosis skill and a bit of Savoir-Faire, Psychology and Fast-Talk thrown in. "Hospitaler" or "Nursing" might be a better term for the practical sort of ongoing medical care GURPS describes. |
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01-24-2023, 07:20 AM | #19 |
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That was my suspicion, but I was getting the feeling upthread that suturing would be considered surgery, which seemed a very modern view.
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