Participant’s experience: 2023 Summer School
At the CSMBR we value deeply the experience and comfort of our delegates and we never lose sight of the
At the CSMBR we value deeply the experience and comfort of our delegates and we never lose sight of the
By the end of the Middle Ages hospitals began to manifest the symptoms of an institutional crisis. This situation will
Some of the plants mentioned by Dioscorides are still used in modern pharmacopoeias. One such plant is the mandrake which
Silk thread or metallic wire? This article focuses on the figure of Johann Rhode (1587-1659), a Danish philologist and physician
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
This post explores Agresto, an acidic substance obtained from boiling and subsequent pressing of "unripe grapes", which was used in
This article explores early modern quarantine regulations highlighting contemporary attitudes toward the body, disease and cleanliness.