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

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

The herbs from these gardens could be used ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... "While some of them are herbal cures still used in alternative medicine today, others are based ...

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 ...