Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – will feature in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious ...

THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering lifesaving surgical procedures. Their interest also ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

Apeike Umolu explores what the University Library’s latest exhibition can teach us about female healthcare in medieval ...

An expert on medieval medicine, she also (literally) wrote the book on medieval pet-keeping. Her studies of domestic animals and rabid dogs led her to uncover what she describes as an 'almost ...

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