"Herbs at a Glance" -- covers only a handful of trendy herbs for Alternative medicine, but includes scientific info ( Read more... )

Before I go on leave....

Elisabeth Brooke. Woman Healers through History. Erhm... feminista medical history.

Jews, medicine, and medieval society by Joseph Shatzmiller -- of particular interest for the 4 page section on Women in the medical profession

Growing up in Medieval London. Barbara Hanawalt.

Ron Barkai. A History Jewish Gynaecological ( Read more... )

Public record of the labor and delivery of a Iberian woman, 1490:
http://www.the-orb.net/birthrecord.html

Someone was referred to me because I know a bunch about historical use of herbs. She's doing a paper on the Egyptian herbals, and was splashing about in search of narrowing her topic.
So, I thought I'd post my most useful responses here, in case someone else is doing the same thing.
The text she's working with is
Lise Manniche, An Ancient Egyptian ( Read more... )

Causaubon's Book linked to these two pages on the Rehydration project site ( Read more... )

By About.com editor Melissa Snell:
http://historymedren.about.com/cs/plagueanddisease/ht/avoidplague.htm

Don't miss the Diabolical Black Death Quiz:http://

The October 3, 2007 issue of JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, has on its cover a very nice photo of a circa 1580 terracotta Drug Jar for Theriac from the J. Paul Getty museum ( Read more... )

And herein I begin to wrap up my notes from the presentation I made at Darkover ( Read more... )

The herbal history fantasy group are prone to claim that herbs as medications were 'driven underground' by the Christian Church and/or the Medical Establishment during the middle ages and Renaissance.

Nancy Siraisi, in Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice, p. 141, discusses the types of medication in ( Read more... )

People often backwards-generalize the division between a symptomatic or disease-focused 'scientific' medicine and an alternative 'holistic' or 'whole person medicine' seen in today's culture to the middle ages. To be completely blunt, this is bunk ( Read more... )