Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers analyzing proteins from fingerprints and other residue in a 16 th-century medicinal guide found evidence of strange ...

What if a single old book held, within its very pages, the physical traces of some of the most baffling remedies from Renaissance medicine? By analyzing invisible residues left behind by readers ...

Greg Jenner is joined in the sixteenth century by Dr Alanna Skuse and comedian Ria Lina to learn all about medicine and medical professionals in Tudor and Stuart England. In Renaissance-era England, ...

In Renaissance England, skillful surgeons and herb-dispensing healers competed with charlatan doctors.

What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies responded to treatment? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...