Emerging in monasteries and convents, apothecaries were later incorporated into guilds to serve the general public. But the ...

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Bishop's Waltham Palace (Image: Echo) 8. St Catherine’s Hill Walk.

The often overlooked capital of Overijssel has a colourful history and it is well worth a day trip or a longer stay. Zwolle was liberated by a single Canadian soldier during World War II but before ...

The roots of the pharmaceutical industry lie back with the apothecaries and pharmacies that offered traditional remedies as far back as the middle ages, offering a hit-and-miss range of treatments ...

Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also refused to translate the Bible into the various tongues of the common people, the vernacular languages, in order to further hinder personal Bible ...