Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...
KUSA – The best medicine for MRSA may be a medieval potion for eye infections, according to new research out of the United Kingdom. MRSA is resistant to conventional antibiotics due to overuse. The ...
So, you've got an annoying sniffle, sore throat or pesky cough and want to shake it off as quickly as possible. You are probably going to reach for lozenges, Lemsip or Vicks. But remedies used by past ...
“Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware pot…” This is no witch’s potion, but a 15th-century attempt to cure ...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Visitors to Hattiesburg’s Pocket Museum in October will get a frightening look at how doctors treated some patients hundreds of years ago. It’s all part of a new exhibit ...