Infections spread quickly and there were no inoculations, no cures and no defences against the misery it could inflict on the people of medieval England. Disease became man’s greatest enemy ...

The intense episodes of perspiration that victims experienced obviously gave rise to the disease’s name, which was also known ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

The oldest known case of the disease was found in a 6-year-old boy ... detection of Haemophilus influenzae in an early medieval child promises that it will be detectable in more cases in history ...

This attracted flies and vermin, which could spread disease. In 1086 ... was the country’s largest medieval town.

Famously known as “venereal disease,” syphilis is usually associated with time periods like Medieval Europe, Italian Renaissance and New World exploration. Many historical figures, like ...