The Medieval Period, commonly known as The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from the 5th to the 15th century (476 AD to 1453 AD). It is the period in European history which started at the end of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Arthur Brock (1879–1947) is generally remembered as the physician who treated poet Wilfred Owen for shell shock and as the translator of Galen ...

For thousands of years, the treatment of illness involved some combination of superstition, trial-and-error, inadvertent torture, and just plain dumb luck. A treatment counted as effective if the ...

The news of a newly discovered part of the human body made a big splash earlier this summer: a never-before-noted set of lymphatic vessels in the central nervous system. New discoveries like this one ...

In this meticulous and engaging biography, University of Georgia history professor Mattern (Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing) writes that Galen, a Greek aristocrat of great ambition and dazzling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers analyzing proteins from fingerprints and other residue in a 16 th-century medicinal guide found evidence of strange ...

Greg Jenner is joined in the sixteenth century by Dr Alanna Skuse and comedian Ria Lina to learn all about medicine and medical professionals in Tudor and Stuart England. In Renaissance-era England, ...