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In The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reads the works of a legendary member of this profession (0[1])either known as Trotula or Trota. (0[2])In the early modern era, people in this profession without formal training were called “empirics.” In the Middle Ages, people in this profession often consulted a book that listed more (20[1])than 600 plants by Dioscorides. (20[5]0[4])A rival “chemical” (20[1])branch (20[1])of people in this profession (0[2])followed Paracelsus and Andreas (20[2]0[1])(*) Vesalius (10[1]0[1])in rejecting (0[1])the outdated teachings of Galen. (10[5]0[1])Starting (10[1])in the (10[1])14th (10[1])century, members of this profession carried around dried flowers and herbs (10[2])and wore a beak-shaped mask (10[1])to ward off evil (10[1])“miasmas.” For 10 points, give this profession whose members still follow an oath attributed to Hippocrates. (10[5])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: doctors [or surgeons; or healers; or anatomists; or medicine or medical practitioners; accept gynecologist; accept midwifery on the basis that the distinction between these fields was thin in the Middle Ages and Trotula is also recorded as a midwife; prompt on herbalists]
<Hari Parameswaran, History - European - Middle Ages&gt; ~22500~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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