Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People; Benjamin Woolley; HarperCollins: 402 pp., $24.95 ...

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

The project "opens a wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of 17th-century medicine, magic and the occult," Professor Lauren Kassell of Cambridge's History and Philosophy of Science ...

Since 2010, a team of researchers from the University of Milan and the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico has worked to recover and study the contents of the hospital’s old ...

Noble's Embalming Jar Reveals Traces of 17th-Century Medicine. The color and texture of thin jerky, the dried intestines of a Medici Grand Duchess are offering some surprising clues to her final ...

Excavated in 2004 from a 17th-century privy under Rochester Independent College, the bottle had been forgotten until Crozier’s discovery. “Someone joked it might be a witch bottle,” she says.

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw a burst of innovation in science, medicine, and the arts across Europe. The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century .

As many of us suffer from coughs, colds and viruses, Huntingdon’s Cromwell Museum is offering the opportunity to find out how your ailments would have been treated 350 years ago, with a visit ...

Even by the standards of 17th Century medicine, some of their approaches were seen as eccentric. Prof Kassell says Richard Napier would often get extra help by consulting angels.

Located beneath the Scottish capital’s iconic Royal Mile, The Real Mary King’s Close is launching a brand-new tour based on 17th century medicine this Edinburgh Science Festival. The new ...

Even by the standards of 17th Century medicine, some of their approaches were seen as eccentric. Prof Kassell says Richard Napier would often get extra help by consulting angels.