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Medieval medical experts stressed that such an approach became increasingly important later in life, because as a person aged, their body cooled and dried—and death occurred when all of their ...

Archaeologists in a historic city recently came across the remnants of an expansive medieval hospital. The discovery was ...

Although the adjective "medieval" continues to be used disparagingly to imply backwardness in medical and scientific knowledge, this history of preventive medicine shows us something different.

A collection of medieval medical treatment recipes that will be published by Cambridge University Library show that people have long suffered from illnesses and afflictions like toothaches and ...

Frontlines | A Peek Inside a Medieval Medicine Cabinet Courtesy of Wolfgang Eckart For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their ...

Archaeologists exhuming a Renaissance-era Roman medical waste dump unearthed a treasure trove of illuminating artifacts, including "urine flasks" -- which doctors used in diagnosing various ...

Carine van Rhijn researched medieval medical texts in unexpected places: “When you start looking at manuscripts, you never know what you’re going to find".

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind trial-and-error’ ...

Bloodletting was central to medieval medical practice. It used leeches or sharp knife-like instruments to nick the vein and cause blood to drain from the body.

Medieval doctors saw fertility as having a cut-off point rather than slowly declining with age, ancient medical texts show.