Evolution of microbes means it is necessary to find new drugs to battle them The Ancientbiotics team is compiling a database of medieval medical recipes One recipe turned out to be a potent ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, led by Dr. Elena Fiorin and her colleagues investigated ...

Medieval warfare was brutal, but did every sword cut or arrow wound automatically mean infection? In this video, we explain how infections actually worked in the Middle Ages, what caused them, and how ...

The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, assistant ...

Medieval medicine and active fund management have a lot in common. They both have a success rate that’s based mostly on faith rather than scientific fact. Medieval medical "cures" and outperformance ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their contents--the conditions that were described, the prescriptions that were advised--have ...

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 ...

Why did you choose to research infections and their treatment? Every day we are inching towards a world where we do not have antibiotics that work due to bacterial antibiotic resistance. It threatens ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says ...