One leechbook suggests tying a live crab around the neck. To treat swollen eyes tie a live crab around the neck. Not all the advice in leechbooks is to be taken with a pinch of salt. One remedy ...

Colorado health officials have confirmed that a resident has contracted the bacterial infection that causes the plague. The deadly medieval disease can cause patients to cough up blood and for their ...

London, with a population of around 23,000 people in 1377, was the country’s largest medieval town.

Family members care for most people with mental illness in ancient times. In general, medieval Europeans allow the mentally ill their freedom -- granted they are not dangerous. However ...

and they lived in good health with decent nutrition, normally to an older age. It seems likely they were early scholars of the University of Cambridge." Mark Gridley/After the Plague Medieval ...

Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England / Sally Crawford -- 'This should not be shown to a gentile': medico-magical texts in medieval Franco-German Jewish rabbinic manuscripts / Ephraim ...