According to Benjamin Lee Gordon, who wrote the book "Medieval and Renaissance Medicine" in 1959, the hospital as we know it today was invented by the French, but was originally set up to help ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

One guest had too accurate a taste of medieval medicine: they broke their ankle and were stranded on the island until the tide went out. As the world’s most beautiful – and in-demand – wedding ...

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

Treatment: To cure Overfull, administer Low Grade Medical Supplies to the affected Pal. You can craft this medicine at the Medieval Medicine Workbench using 5 Red Berries and 2 Horns. Alternatively, ...

An expert on medieval medicine, she also (literally) wrote the book on medieval pet-keeping. Her studies of domestic animals and rabid dogs led her to uncover what she describes as an 'almost ...

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.