Doctor’s orders

LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu

ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

For about a decade I was convinced I was mortally ill. The identity of my illness changed several times, but the fear was always the same: in short, that I was dying; that I had some dreadful and no d

Most women have suffered the misery of bladder infection (cystitis) – burning pain on passing urine, needing to rush to the loo frequently, low tummy pain, sometimes even blood in the urine. Men do ge

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