Medicine Archive
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The Use of Mercury against Pediculosis in the Renaissance: The Case of Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Naples, 1467–96
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe hair samples of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1467–1496), King of Naples, whose mummy is preserved in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, showed a high content of mercury, with a value of 827ppm. -
Azodi Hospital and University in Shiraz (10th – 14th Century AD)
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No CommentsHospitals have a long history throughout the history of medicine. First hospitals are originated from Persia in ancient times in the Sassanid Dynasty (2nd to 6th century AD). -
Visual-Kinetic Communication in Europe Before 1600: A Survey of Sign Lexicons and Finger Alphabets Prior to the Rise of Deaf Education
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No CommentsVisual-kinetic communication systems are mentioned in a wide variety of texts up through the early Renaissance, but not often described in any detail. What seems to us such a strange and frustrating omission results from the very different nature and purpose of scholarly writing in premodern times. -
Contributions of contemporary science to Chaucer’s work
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe thesis shows that the Medieval Sciences made a significant contribution to Chaucer's mind and art, and that Chaucer shared the attitude of great scholars before and after him -
Exhibition reveals the genius of Leonardo’s anatomical work
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsLeonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking studies of the human body are to go on display in the largest-ever exhibition of his anatomical work. -
The Medical Zeitgeist in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligès
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No CommentsWhile reading Medieval texts, we often times discover special concoctions made of various ingredients in order to cure certain diseases and illnesses. -
Magiferous Plants in Medieval English Herbalism
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThis study examines thirteen English vernacular medical texts, dating from approximately the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, for evidence of magiferous healing plants. -
Graeco-Roman Case Histories and their Influence on Medieval Islamic Clinical Accounts
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsMedieval Islamic medicine has until now been studied primarily through its learned treatises. According to that theoretical corpus, written in Arabic, Islamic medicine mainly constitutes an elaborate systematization and synthesis of earlier Graeco-Roman sources. -
Alfred the Great: a diagnosis
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis work was thought to have been written for aWelsh audience who might not have been all that keen on a West Saxon king. Therefore it is likely that Asser was drumming up interest in his intended audience by representing the king’s lot as quite a hard one,which seems to have been correct. -
Bones4Culture project to examine a thousand medieval skeletons from northern Europe
Posted on April 16, 2012 | No CommentsA new project is underway to analyze population, life, health and culture of the people that lived in the German-Danish border land during the Middle Ages (AD 1050 – 1536). -
Stress Along the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border? Skeletal Indicators of Conflict-Zone Health
Posted on April 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe medieval British populations living along the Anglo-Scottish border from the 10th through the 16th century were hypothesised to have significantly higher mortality and morbidity rates than contemporary populations living in other regions of Britain that were not exposed to chronic border warfare. -
Residential Mobility and Dental Decoration in Early Medieval Spain: Results from the Eighth Century Site of Plaza del Castillo, Pamplona
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the practice of dental decoration was virtually absent in Medieval Spain, it is common in Africa and suggests that this individual was born in Africa and brought to Spain later in life. -
The mandrake plant and its legend: a new perspective
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsAs a specialist in German mediaeval studies, until the time Peter Bierbaumer introduced me to Old English plant names and approached me with the idea of republishing and updating his Der botanische Wortschatz des AltenglischenI had no idea how fascinating Old English could be. -
Natural remedies for impotence in medieval Persia
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsIn recent years, some experimental studies have evaluated medieval Persian natural therapies using modern scientific methods. These investigations raised the possibility of revival of traditional treatments -
VAGANTES: Hālnes and hǽlþ:Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsSince most of the surviving mentions of wellness relate to the health of the soul, it is not clear what constituted a healthy Anglo-Saxon body. This paper will use the Old English poem Soul and Body and Old English medical texts to explore Anglo-Saxon bodily wellness.
