Surgeons were carrying out complicated skull operations in medieval times, the remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show. A skull belonging to a 40-year-old peasant man, who lived between ...

Medieval surgeons became experts in external surgery, but they did not operate deep inside the body. They treated eye cataracts , ulcers, and various types of wounds. Records show they were even ...

Medieval surgeons became experts in external surgery (surgery not deep inside the body), and treated eye cataracts, ulcers and various types of wounds.

Medieval music fragments and Middle Dutch texts. The FragmEndoscopy method proved not only successful, but also practical and ...

The medieval peasants would probably have been eating a coarser diet and so they would have less trapped in their teeth and therefore less decay. "Most people would probably have to rely largely on ...

A mysterious, medieval skeleton discovered in Italy shows signs of a "coffin birth" and primitive brain surgery. (Image credit: Pasini et al./World Neurosurgery/Elsevier) ...