Claudio Azzarito discusses the characteristics of the “perfect physician” as they emerge from the medical writings of the 12th-century Jewish

By the end of the Middle Ages hospitals, of which there were around 19,000 throughout Europe (13th and 14th centuries),

Some of the plants mentioned by Dioscorides are still used in modern pharmacopoeias. One such plant is the mandrake which

Would you be comfortable with your doctor's uncertainty about whether to suture your wound with silk thread or metallic wire?

The "Kitāb al-Malakī" (or 'Royal Book', KM), written by the Zoroastrian physician ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbas al-Maǧūsī is one of the

Bacon believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of

Bacon believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of

In the 13th century, ‘embryology’ as a specific branch of biology did not exist, and the study of the configuration