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 * 1) classes of doctors in rank from greatest to least:
 * Physician
 * Surgeon
 * midwife
 * apothecary
 * noblewoman
 * 1) Doctors began to rely on experience rather than ancient dogma
 * 2) Medical text at the time was "Canon of Medicine"
 * 3) Doctors at the time would prescribe herbs, diets, rest, and fasting to cure the ill, until German-Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) advanced European medicine with the use of chemical remedies based with Mercury, Iron, copper sulfate, and sulfur to treat the ill
 * 4) There came about an anatomical advance in the Rennaisance and thus a new anatomical text came about by the name of "On the structure of the human body" written by the Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), and this text corrected 200+ errors of Galen's past anatomical theories