Restoring the right balance required blood-letting (using leeches), following a special diet, and taking specific remedies. During Medieval times, most of the world believed in the four humors theory.

Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take ...

Although the adjective “medieval” continues to be used disparagingly to imply backwardness in medical and scientific knowledge, this history of preventive medicine shows us something different.

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places ...