The Physician's Tale

The author of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, was thought to be born in 1343. His paternity was a merchant and Chaucer had many occupations such as a soldier and a diplomat. His true calling though was as an author. During his services as an English soldier he was captured and held for a ransom of sixteen pounds. A few years later he married unitary of the queens servants named Philippa Pan. Chaucer did not keep open the Canterbury Tales until the end of his life; therefore, he only finished cardinal of the projected one hundred twenty-four tales. (Literature)

        Chaucer gave an in abstrusity description of the physician:

A physician too emerged as we proceeded;

No one alive could talk as well as he did

On points of medicine and of surgery,

For, being grounded in astronomy,

He watched his patients favorable star

And, by his lifelike Magic, knew

The lucky hours and planetary degrees

For making charms and magic effigies.

The cause of all(prenominal) malady youd 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 thence and there.

All his apothecaries in a tribe

Were ready with the drugs he would prescribe,

And each do money from the other guile;

They had been friendly for a levelheaded while.

In his own diet he observed some prise;

There were no superfluities for pleasure,

Only digestives, nutritives, and such.

He did not read the Bible very much.

In rubicund garments, slashed with bluish-grey

And lined with taffeta, he rode his way;

Yet he was or else close as to expenses

And kept the gold he win in pestilences.

Gold stimulates the heart, or so...

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