The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, assistant ...

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

Kathryn Rudy receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Medieval doctors had to acquire a range of skills including an ability to read Latin texts, a working knowledge of the bodily “humours” and an ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark! According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok ...

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or ...

Medical ideas in the medieval era were heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, particularly Hippocrates and Galen. Although Galen had not been a Christian, he was accepted by the Church ...

The Medieval Period lasted from around 476 C.E. to 1453 C.E. The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery came after. Medieval medicine typically refers to a combination of natural and supernatural ...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok ...

"We have shown that a medieval remedy made from onion, garlic, wine, and bile can kill a range of problematic bacteria grown both planktonically and as biofilms. Because the mixture did not cause much ...

PROF. WALSH has written an attractive and most readable account of the course of medieval medicine. He has painted a good, even a speaking-, picture, but it is not a likeness which most first-hand ...

A trip to the doctor in the Dark Ages might sound like a terrifying prospect. But researchers now say that medieval medicine was actually 'way more sophisticated' than you might think. In fact, you ...

Antibiotic resistance is an increasing battle for scientists to overcome, as more antimicrobials are urgently needed to treat biofilm-associated infections. However scientists say research into ...