Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a ...

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

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with often strange methods. Dr James Freeman, the exhibition's ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their contents--the conditions that were described, the prescriptions that were advised--have ...

A new exhibition offers a glimpse into the unusual and sometimes bizarre medical practices of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval ...

Unlike medical literature today, which is specialized, in the medieval Islamic world it was integrated with natural science, astrology, alchemy, religion, philosophy and mathematics. Islamic ...

Medical ideas in the Middle Ages were heavily ... drink or exercise too much – which probably did help to make them healthy. Medieval doctors also used astrology, as they believed that the ...

Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned even without a robust medical system – instead, they changed their clothes, name and social ...

Cambridge The books include illustrations revealing how medieval people thought the human body worked, drawing upon ancient Greek texts rediscovered by Arabic sources Medical understanding in the ...