In the Game of Thrones, specific medical knowledge is further advanced and accurate than in the Middle Ages. This stands partially for the reason that certain discoveries in history have been accidental, for example, penicillin, not the culmination of a long aggregation of previous discoveries. While this might seem incongruent with the otherwise static medieval level of technology in the Game of Thrones, much of real-life medical knowledge was discovered purely through trial and error or by accident, in particular antibiotics. The maesters (doctors in Game of Thrones) might not distinguish the underlying, theoretical reasons behind illnesses; however, they have accumulated an advanced level of functional medical knowledge for practical purposes,
