Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...

Medieval people often relied on books, folk advice, and medical theories that did not age well. Some believed the Black Death ...

The exhibition includes about 50 manuscripts and at least six early printed books, with the oldest dating back to the late 11th or early 12th Century Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have ...

Medieval life wasn’t just brutal on the battlefield – it was terrifying when it came to disease. In this video, we uncover 7 of the most gruesome illnesses people faced during the Middle Ages, from ...

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 ...

“Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware pot…” This is no witch’s potion, but a 15th-century attempt to cure ...