I recently engaged an atheist who claimed that medieval hospitals were basically hospices, with no particular treatments, remedies or therapeutics — or any notable openness to scientific advancement ...

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview.

While nowadays you might have some chicken soup to fight a cold, a new project unearthing manuscripts up to 1,000 years old reveals the bizarre medical remedies recommended by those in the medieval ...

Long before pharmacy apps and TikTok health hacks, people were rubbing crushed lizards on their heads and tying vulture feathers to their legs in hopes of healing. And as strange as it sounds, some of ...

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, ...

Disease is as ancient as the first man’s morning breath and twice as foul. Since time immemorial, we’ve been scratching our heads, trying to make sense of why our bodies betray us with such gleeful ...

A complete, fully editable lesson exploring how people treated and attempted to prevent illness in medieval England. Designed for the Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present ...