Writing around 1460, the Italian physician Michele Savonarola complained that, ... 2021), and is currently working on a book about medieval approaches to healthy living.

Dr James Freeman, the exhibition’s curator, explains that the manuscripts "take you to the medieval bedside and reveal the strange and surprising things that physicians and healers tried to make ...

Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, ...

In her first book, "Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550)," published in 2020, she wrote about the teaching of medicine and science ...

Curious medieval cures, including a treatment for gout that involved baking an owl then grinding it into a powder, are to be shared with the public online by Cambridge University Library.

“Medieval physicians also had access to and used a variety of spices in their formulations, such as cumin, pepper and ginger, and commonly mixed ingredients with ale, white wine, vinegar or milk.” ...

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of Medicine’. He as one of the earliest doctors to believe that diseases and illnesses had natural rather ...

“Medieval physicians also had access to and used a variety of spices in their formulations, such as cumin, pepper and ginger, and commonly mixed ingredients with ale, white wine, vinegar or milk.” ...

Curious medieval cures, including a treatment for gout that involved baking an owl then grinding it into a powder, are to be shared with the public online by Cambridge University Library. Another ...