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Ancient medicine has evolved over time, some practices were bizarre, whereas some we use even now, from the concept of informed consent to several medicinal ingredients. Decades and centuries of ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that ...

Queen Mary University of London has a proud 240-year history of improving lives and access to higher education, built on four ...

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Alex Broadbent receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What is medicine? We recognise it in all societies past and present. But the nature of medicine differs so ...

The history of medicine is filled with accounts of strange and often downright dangerous “treatments,” but these have sometimes opened the way for lifesaving discoveries. In this Curiosities of ...

In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease ...