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| Mar 30, 2017 at 4:43 | comment | added | Megha | @zovits - A possible option might be looking for a job as a healer's assistant while figuring out the basics of the society, what methods the locals were familiar with, and how to talk about ideas like hygiene without sounding crazy or suspicious, before thinking about setting up independently. This is more or less my own plan if I should end up in such a storybook situation... although as a female, saying my Da is a doctor might be a better explanation with my partial knowledge (no actual herb-lore, but physical first aid and hygiene) and without stepping on too many toes. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | hildred | contrary to popular modern opinion, bloodletting did actually have a couple valid and beneficial applications. Not many, but they worked. It would be better to say mostly useless. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 8:28 | comment | added | Chanandler Bong | And just to add something about the clothes - they would look so odd that many people would think of them as very expensive. If he's lucky he would be quickly running naked, if unlucky... well, the same, but not so much running :-) | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 8:17 | comment | added | Chanandler Bong | +1 Many great answers here, but I liked this one the most. Especially (but not only) because it's the only one that takes physical appearance into account. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 6:52 | comment | added | zovits | Medicine is something I have thought of, but besides the basics, he would be just as stumped as the others. He would also need to find proper replacements for modern tools and materials (disinfectant, etc). While these could be managed and he could very well achieve significant improvements regarding mortality, being branded as a heretic could still realistically happen if he wasn't careful enough with his words, methods and patients. Also, while back then death was much more accepted, I think some would attribute the death of a patient to his unproven, mystical ways instead of the disease. | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 21:49 | history | answered | Thorsten S. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |