Daily Medieval

When Guy de Chauliac mentioned midwives in his great work on surgery, it was only a mention: he declined to express details because the ...

(I apologize if the title—or the topic—is too crude for some.) The poor fellow to the right (the one half showing) is suffering from an an...

With us there was a doctor of physic; In all this world was none like him to pick For talk of medicine and surgery; For he was gro...

The history of medicine includes many brave and progressive thinkers who were not willing to follow the herd or be content with what was alr...