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” ...

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“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: ...