Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – have been revealed in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious Cures: ...

A new exhibition offers a glimpse into the unusual and sometimes bizarre medical practices of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval ...

Medieval doctors saw fertility as having a cut-off point rather than slowly declining with age, ancient medical texts show. Male and female reproductive aging was seen as similar processes which ...