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 tools for 'haunting' injuries: How one American surgeon is bringing his skills to Ukraine “The gruesomeness of what one man can do to another, it can be haunting,” said Connor Berlin.

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 ...

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

Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, spending as little as three minutes per limb. ... toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t.

Medieval people, including surgeons and patients, likely would not have had positive views of surgery that involved removing working body parts. Illustration from a Latin translation of Albucasis ...

Surgeons, gunpowder and the printing press. Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn't. This ...