In todays deep dive into the world of Medieval Medical Care Historian Matt Lewis and Kevin Goodman - the time travelling ...

Explore the brutal world of battlefield surgery in the Middle Ages, where techniques advanced through necessity. Amid the ...

Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...

This long period of stagnation in medicine had one exception, historians say - "surgery". Barbers were in charge of surgery in medieval Europe, not doctors. During the Middle Ages there were frequent ...

The skull of a medieval Lombard woman found in central Italy shows signs of having undergone two trepanations — surgeries to make holes in the head. But why she underwent the painful procedures is ...