The Canterbury Tales

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   amy-lepore Teacher
   High School - 12th Grade

   The doctor also diagnoses people by their horoscopes (aren't you glad our doctors today go by more definitive means?).  Once diagnosed, he sends them to the pharmacist with whom he is in cahoots...in other words, they have it worked out where they both make lots of money.  Very dishonest.

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   Posted by amy-lepore on Tuesday October 2, 2007 at 11:00 AM
   
   

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   arjun Teacher
   College - Senior

   Here the doctor is very strange.He is one sided expert.There was no one  who knew about the medicine.He knew astrology and something of nature and could utter the suitable humour to make laugh the patients.He could quote all the medicine authorities,but had little knowledge of Bible.He had apparently made  a lot of money during the plague,but it does not seem to spend it very readily.Since he prescribes gold for cures,he has a special love for this metal.

   for gold in physik is a cordial

   Therefore he  lovede gold in special. 

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   Posted by arjun on Wednesday December 19, 2007 at 11:27 PM
   
   

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   lewismct Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   The doctor of physic was grounded in astronomy, (astrology), rather than surgery and medicine; in fact, he taught his patients by using white magic.  The doctor thought the cause of illness was related to the humors "hot or cold or moist or dry".  He was not a spiritual person as "his study was but little on the Bible", and he was more interested in gold.  "He kept what he won" during the plague.  Gold could be used in medicine at the time, but, the doctor was more interested in gold's monetary worth, "for gold in physic is a cordial/Therefore he loved gold in special."

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   Posted by lewismct on Wednesday July 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM
   
   

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