Premodern European medicine has been poorly studied for its clinical potential, compared with traditional pharmacopeias of other parts of the world. Our research also raises questions about medieval ...

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...

“A wise surgeon,” warned a wise 13th century surgeon, “will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient.” Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: ...

For pulmonary ailments, certain medieval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. For pulmonary ...

Steve Martin used to play a character called Theodoric of York, a medieval physician who insisted on trying to cure sick people by hanging them upside down, bleeding them out, and festooning their ...

Quaderni storici, NUOVA SERIE, Vol. 46, No. 136 (1), Normale/patologico, sano/malato dal medioevo al contemporaneo (APRILE 2011), pp. 13-45 (33 pages) This article examines the efforts of medieval ...

Medieval physicians devoted centuries to the search for the elixir of life, a universal panacea for bodily ills. During the 19th century, doctors touted the all-purpose healing properties of patent ...