In an era marked by strict patriarchal norms, women developed creative methods to protect their bodily autonomy, often using ...

Some devout Christian felt that medicine was not a profession ... Monasteries, which led medical research and practice in Medieval Europe had extensive herb gardens for the production of remedies ...

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 ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Medieval Barber Theodoric of York” ...