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 ...

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 ...

Quaderni storici, NUOVA SERIE, Vol. 46, No. 136 (1), Normale/patologico, sano/malato dal medioevo al contemporaneo (APRILE 2011), pp. 13-45 (33 pages) This article examines the efforts of medieval ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Medieval Period, commonly known as The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from the 5th to the 15th century (476 AD to 1453 AD). It is the period in European history which started at the end of ...

Madam, - Dick Ahlstrom's report of Dr Carrie Griffin's lecture on medieval medicine says that a physician in that period would… Madam, - Dick Ahlstrom's report of Dr Carrie Griffin's lecture on ...