These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

Wading through swamps, letting bloodsucking parasites cling to your bare legs… all in a day's work. Meet the leech collectors ...

Before modern miracles, medicine was a nightmare. Discover the brutal, bizarre, and often deadly treatments of the past.

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with… strange methods. Researchers were shocked to find one ...

With the passing of Professor Tony K. Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities Emeritus, the field of South ...

If the least active 25 percent of Americans matched the top quarter, they would need to add about 111 minutes of daily ...

The 14th-century manuscript marks a major milestone: the 1000th anniversary of Ibn Sina’s iconic work, a foundation of ...