Hear ye! Hear ye! A new history fact has been debunked! According to bubo-bursting research by the German Museum of Medicine ...

In modern times, if you get sick your parents take you to the doctor and you get some medicine to feel better, but in the ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm—the Greek physician of the fourth century B.C. built on the best science (or natural ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used as protection against disease, ranging ...

There are ways to dress protectively during a pandemic, and there are ways that scream, “too soon.” A mysterious black-swathed figure dressed in full 17th-century plague doctor garb falls into that ...

If you happened to find yourself in 17th-century Naples, you were in for a rough time. The Plague of 1656 was in full swing and would claim an estimated 300,000 lives in Naples alone. If you were one ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...