Which Fairy Tales show medicine at work?

[LizzieGates]

Hello, I'm a new kid on the block and delighted to be here. Could someone please give me some suggestions as to which Fairy Tales illustrate the good and bad characteristics of healers/medicine men/ doctors etc? I'm hoping to find a good story to illustrate these things to trainee doctors.

Best wishes, LizzieGates

[Eugenie]

Lord Aragorn uses medicine in the curing of the fallen that still live in Return of the King.

[Pecksie]

Well, I don't suppose the cutting open of the wolf's belly in Little Red Riding Hood would count as surgery, would it?

[prendrelemick]

Snow white, the poisened apple.

Sleeping beauty, the prick (injection?) that knocked her out, and the mouth to mouth that revived her.

Alice in wonderland, her experimentation with hallucinogenic mushrooms.

[Taliesin]

Chukotka fairy-tales sometimes feature some kind of shaman who overpower/overwit ogres, and steal people's souls back from them, thus healing them.
(which might not always be a good thing - I once read a Chukotka fairy tale which told how a powerful shaman stole another shamans sons soul from the Birdwoman who lived in another plane, brought the boy back to life and the last damn paragraph is something like this:
"Be careful with him. I had to put some of my own power in him, but there is evil in him." And then the flew away.
When the son grew up, he became a powerful evil shaman who destroyed all the people in the neighbourhood)
I also think that shamanistic cultures might feature quite a lot of fairy-tales where the shaman is the hero.

[Gustavo L.]

A wicked doctor helps to poison the king in "The Princess and Curdie" by George Macdonald.