Lovesickness: The Most Common Form of Heart Disease
The signs and symptoms of lovesickness are often consistent regardless of time or culture.
The virtues and vices of old people in the late middle ages
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The Plague of Justinian and Other Scourges: An analysis of the Anomalies in the Development of the Iron Age population in Finland
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Plague Mortality and Demographic Depression in Later Medieval England
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Health Education through the Ages
I shall group my remarks around two questions: whose was the task to educate, and who was to be educated?
Surgical Education in the Middle Ages
The new surgical texts of the thirteenth century suggest that their authors wished their subject to appear as a learned discipline, yet it was still communicated by individual practitioners privately to one or two disciples, not in a university setting
The Form and Function of Medieval Hospitals
Between the very late eleventh century and the 1530s, a bare minimum of 1,300 hospitals and almshouses were founded in England.
Etiology of the Dancing Plague
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The Indexing Of Medieval Women: The Feminine Tradition Of Medical Wisdom In Anglo-Saxon England And The Metrical Charms
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Medieval Charitable Institutions and Intellectual Impairment c.1066–1600
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The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
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Early Medieval Crystal Amulets: Secular Instruments of Protection and Healing
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Loadstones Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Lapidary Cures, Midwives, and Manuals of Popular Healing in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Illness without doctors: medieval systems of healthcare in Scotland
When most common folk fell ill they consulted a local healer, either a man (‘cunning man’), but more usually a woman (‘cunning woman’), with a practical knowledge of medicinal herbs, magical amulets and charms
Medieval advice to pregnant mothers: don’t drink water, have wine instead
Medieval medical opinion believed that foods could play an important role in the health and behaviour of people – certain kinds of foods, if eaten too much, could cause illness or cause a person to become depressed or melancholy.
The medical resources and practice of the crusader states in Syria and Palestine 1096-1193
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Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries)
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Stature as a criterion of the nutritional level of Viking Age Icelanders
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