This long period of stagnation in medicine had one exception, historians say - "surgery". Barbers were in charge of surgery in medieval Europe, not doctors. During the Middle Ages there were ...

al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern culture of Islam. Islamist scholars like Hunayn ibn ...

War broke out across the whole of Europe ... the series: Medicine through time. This could be used to discuss the theories and influence of Hippocrates and Galen throughout the medieval period..

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.

The "Saturday Night Live" sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric ... I argue in my recent book, " Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe," that a major innovation of that ...