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    The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail
    The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail
    The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail
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    The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail

    By Kenneth Kee

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    This new book is the fictional story of a medieval family doctor who joins the Canterbury trail to pay homage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury) at Canterbury Cathedral.
    Saint Thomas Becket was treated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church.
    The medieval doctors had very little knowledge of the human anatomy and depended on very basic books and drawings
    Hippocrates always stressed that doctors should cautiously observe symptoms of the patients and take notice of them.
    He also knew that diet and exercise and keeping clean were important for health.
    Hippocrates also rejected all magic and he believed in herbal remedies.
    The teachings of medieval doctors were based on Hippocrates’ bodily humors theory.
    This theory suggested that every human body contains four principal fluids or humors, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood.
    For a person to stay healthy these fluids had to be in balance.
    If a person had too much of one humor they fell ill.
    For instance if a person had a fever he may contain too much blood.
    The treatment was to let the patient bleed to release the blood (blood letting).
    Cauterization, a procedure used to burn the skin or flesh of a wound, was done to prevent infection and stop profuse bleeding.
    To do this procedure, doctors heated a metal rod and made use of it to burn the flesh or skin of a wound.
    This would cause the blood from the wound to clot and eventually heal the wound
    "Wet" cupping, a form of bloodletting, was done by making a slight incision in the skin and drawing blood by placing a heated cupping glass on the incision.
    “Dry cupping”, the placement of a heated cupping glass (without an incision) on a particular area of a patient’s body to alleviate pain, itch, and other common ailments, was also used
    The heat and suction from the glass induced the blood to rise to the surface of the skin to be drained.
    This theory had a close link to the theory of four elements, i.e. earth, fire, water and air, with earth present in the black bile, fire in the yellow bile, water in the phlegm and blood containing all four elements.
    With his brother, he rode with Chaucer and his pilgrims and listen to their Canterbury Tales as told by Chaucer.
    He contributes his own story about Saint Luke who is the patron saint for all doctors.

    TABLE OF CONTENT
    Introduction
    Chapter 1 Prologue
    Chapter 2 Meeting the Pilgrims
    Chapter 3 The Journey
    Chapter 4 The Ploughman
    Chapter 5 The Second Nun
    Chapter 6 The Villagers
    Chapter 7 Other Stories
    Chapter 8 Chaucer Retraction and The Family Doctor’s Tale
    Epilogue

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenneth Kee
    Release dateOct 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370679638
    The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail
    Author

    Kenneth Kee

    Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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      The Family Doctor’s Tale On The Canterbury Trail - Kenneth Kee

      The

      Family

      Doctor’s

      Tale

      On

      The

      Canterbury

      Trail

      By

      Dr Kenneth Kee

      M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

      Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

      Copyright Kenneth Kee 2016 Smashwords Edition

      Published by Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated

      To my wife Dorothy

      And my children

      Carolyn, Grace

      And Kelvin

      And Grandchildren

      Faith, Renee and Hayley.

      This book describes the The Family Doctor’s Tale On the Way to Canterbury

      This eBook is licensed for the personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader.

      If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Introduction

      I have been writing medical articles for my blog http://kennethkee.blogspot.com (A Simple Guide to Medical Condition) for the benefit of my patients since 2007.

      My purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of my patients.

      Health Education was also my dissertation for my Ph.D (Healthcare Administration).

      I then wrote an autobiolographical account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com.

      This autobiolographical account A Family Doctor’s Tale was combined with my early A Simple Guide to Medical Conditions into a new Wordpress Blog A Family Doctor’s Tale on http://kenkee481.wordpress.com.

      From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 800 amazon kindle books and some into Smashwords.com eBooks.

      This new book is the fictional story of a medieval family doctor who joins the Canterbury trail with his brother and tells his story about Saint Luke who is the patron saint for all doctors.

      Saint Luke was a companion to Saint Paul and followed him on his missionary journeys.

      It is very possible that Luke provided medical assistance to Paul when he had been stoned, beaten, or nearly drowned while evangelizing to the Western Roman Empire.

      Luke is the only Gentile author to write books in the Bible.

      Luke is the writer of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles and his writings have been found to be accurate historically.

      One will also find in Luke's account of the gospel, a strong emphasis on the part women played in Christ's ministry.

      He was the first Christian physician and was presented by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of physicians and surgeons.

      The gospel of Luke focuses on the poor and segregated, advising tenderness and compassion for the less fortunate.

      Luke's unique perspective on Jesus can be observed in the six miracles and eighteen parables not found in the other gospels.

      Chapter 1

      Prologue

      "Of England, down to Canterbury they wend,

      The holy blissful martyr there to seek,

      Who had aided them when they were sick.

      It befell that in that season on a day,

      In Southwark at The Tabard as I lay,

      Ready to set out on my pilgrimage

      To Canterbury with pious courage,

      There came at night to that hostelry

      Quite nine and twenty in a company

      Of sundry folk who had chanced to fall

      Into a fellowship, and pilgrims all,

      That towards Canterbury meant to ride.

      ---Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

      My name is Dr Absalom.

      My parents were farmers but they were capable to raise me and my younger brother Ambrose who is following me on my pilgrimage to Canterbury.

      My parents were poor but they earned a decent living raising pigs and chicken.

      My brother Ambrose helped them by working as he had no wish to go to school.

      My mother came from a rich family of lords and squires.

      My father came from a poor family and used to work as a gardener in my mother’s manor.

      Somehow my mother fell in love with my father and fled with him to the countryside

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