Medieval doctors’ strange fertility treatments revealed - Struggling to conceive? Take three or four weasel testicles and ...

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Various documents during that period mention female physicians, midwives and wet nurses. On the next page, we look at Medieval & Renaissance Medicine.

370 BC, was an important figure in the ancient medical world. The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of Medicine’. He as one of the earliest ...

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...