Life in the Middle Ages

 The current belief (for most anyway) is that meat isn't really part of a healthy diet. We're told about societies where people rout...

One often hears some version of, "If they can send a man to the moon, why can't they cure the common cold?"  Well, for starter...

 Before the Covid pandemic, people would often try to understand the horrors of the fourteenth-century Black Death by saying it must have be...

"Wash your hands!"  We've been told this since we were little kids, and in a time of pandemic it's especially important.  ...

There were two main forms of medical practitioners in the Middle Ages, as I've mentioned before , the highly-trained theoretical ones, a...

We have no idea how lucky we are in the twenty-first century to have antibiotics.  Antibiotics were developed for the first time in World Wa...