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

In the Middle Ages, visiting a doctor would have ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

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 ...

which all stand on the shoulders of the extraordinary discoveries and practices from Islam’s golden age. THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating ...

The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of the Middle Ages ... science, medicine, music, drama, philosophy, gender, sexuality, mysticism and technology, as well as medievalism. 60th ...