According to Benjamin Lee Gordon, who wrote the book "Medieval and Renaissance Medicine" in 1959, the hospital as we know it today was invented by the French, but was originally set up to help ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering lifesaving surgical procedures. Their interest also ...

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

medicine, music, drama, philosophy, gender, sexuality, mysticism and technology, as well as medievalism. 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies The 60th International Congress on Medieval ...

Although the adjective "medieval" continues to be used disparagingly to imply backwardness in medical and scientific knowledge, this history of preventive medicine shows us something different.