“Medieval medicine” is what doctors and other healers practiced for most of our recorded history (even before the Medieval Period, 476 AD through 1517 AD). Medical practice was based on the defunct ...

Evolution of microbes means it is necessary to find new drugs to battle them The Ancientbiotics team is compiling a database of medieval medical recipes One recipe turned out to be a potent ...

Medieval medicine used tools inherited from antiquity, but metalwork and surgical knowledge made those instruments more ...

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 ...

Medieval medicine and active fund management have a lot in common. They both have a success rate that’s based mostly on faith rather than scientific fact. Medieval medical "cures" and outperformance ...

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 ...

Why did you choose to research infections and their treatment? Every day we are inching towards a world where we do not have antibiotics that work due to bacterial antibiotic resistance. It threatens ...

Biofilm-associated infections are notoriously difficult to treat, and they also play a role in antibiotic resistance as more antimicrobials are urgently needed to treat biofilm-associated infections.

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their contents--the conditions that were described, the prescriptions that were advised--have ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says ...

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 ...