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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 ...

During the early Renaissance period, there was no such thing as a 24-hour pharmacy or easy, over-the-counter remedies like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...