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Dawn

To recap: The Middle Ages, enlightened as they were compared to the Dark Ages, really didn’t have much on ancient Rome or Greece. Learned medicine was based on Galen and Hippocrates, who could do no wrong and knew all. Plebeian medicine was in the hands of the midwives, those folk heroes of the day who [...]

Why Don’t We Stock Pepper in L&D?

“When God the creator of the universe in the first establishment of the world differentiated the individual natures of things each according to its kind, He endowed human nature above all other things with a singular dignity, giving to it above the condition of all other animals freedom of reason and intellect. And wishing to [...]

Medicine Goes Dark

This is supposed to be a post about the obstetrics of the dark ages. But–nothing happened in European medicine for about 600 years. Nothing. Nada. I’ve been through at least ten histories of obstetrics, and there’s just a sort of blank space. Some of the works of the ancient period did survive–locked away in monasteries [...]