Medieval doctors’ strange fertility treatments revealed - Struggling to conceive? Take three or four weasel testicles and ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – have been ...

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 ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar ...