medicine, medieval

The fictional journal of a medieval doctor provides insights into how various injuries and diseases were treated in the Middle Ages. Considers the question of whether children should have to be vaccinated before starting school.

With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatment was usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grew—leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it..

Relive the dark horror of black death, a terrifying plague and the greatest catastrophe of the midieval time, that killed 14 million people in Europe.

Explores medical treatment in the Middle Ages, and examines how the break-up of the Roman Empire and the growth of the Church affected medical pratices and public health.

Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.