If you think, as some do today, that many drugs used as medicines are potentially deadly, consider what people living in medieval times were prescribed as
Woodcuts from the 15th century medical text Fasciculus medicine in quo continentur: videlicet by Joannes de Ketham. Full text here
A new study finds that great gerbils in Asia, not rats, helped spread Europe's black death and kill millions.
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Tra i luoghi comuni che vengono spesso tirati in mezzo sulla medicina medievale, c’è quello del “tabù dell’anatomia”: ovvero i medici medievali non avrebbero conosciuto il corpo umano che attravers…
During the Middle Ages, one of ways physicians would check on the health of their patients was to look at their urine.
Chirurgia (Rogerius Salernitanus)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 64, detail of f. 234r (birth of Julius Caesar) Faits des Romains. Paris, c. 1460-1465. Artist: Maître de Coëtivy.
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by Mary Wellesley Today is the feast day of St Guthlac, a 7th-century saint from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. The British Library has digitised a number of manuscripts related to Guthlac, including the earliest fragments of the 8th-century Life of Guthlac. Guthlac was a warrior in the Mercian border-lands...
