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

This richly illuminated book contains a copy of the Regime Du Corps, a guide to healthy living originally composed two hundred years earlier for a French noblewoman by her personal physician.

Maimonides, the great medieval physician and rabbinic giant, wrote that “there is no bigger mitzvah than redeeming captives.” Similarly, in 1977, ...

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 ...

“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.

‘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 Voynich Manuscript has baffled cryptographers and historians alike for 600 years. Its strange drawings and coded text have led some to claim it contains magic spells or even alien secrets. But ...

“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 ...

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.