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Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today

  • Written by Meg Leja, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageThis 15th-century medical manuscript shows different colors of urine alongside the ailments they signify.Cambridge University Library, CC BY-NC

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. “The Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York...

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