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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. Wellcome Collection. ISBN 978-1781256800. Mitchell, Piers D. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds, and the Medieval Surgeon (Cambridge University Press, 2004) 293 pp. Porter, Roy.The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present ...
From the belief that the disease could be cured by a royal touch. Lockjaw: Trismus [14] The term is sometimes used as a synonym for tetanus, which usually first manifests as trismus. Monkeypox: Mpox [15] Muerto Canyon disease: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome [16] Named for the area where it was initially identified. "Four Corners disease" is ...
The historiography and historiophoty of medieval film originated in the late 20th century. Historiophoty, the study of history through film, was coined by noted historiographer Hayden White in Historiography and Historiophoty (1988) in which he theorized that one of the main sources of friction between History and Film is the problem of translating from a written discourse (hence the -graphy ...
A disease that causes fever, sweating, and vomiting. The disease itself only appears a few times in the show. Carly contracts the disease several times in her life, however, she is declared a healthy carrier, causing a doctor to advise her to avoid contact with other infected persons and cute boys. She later inadvertently infects someone via an ...
Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases - Roch; Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping - Vitus; Invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases - Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo [6] Riot, civil disorder - Andrew Corsini; Against cold and cold weather - Sebaldus
Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages. Pope Joan: 2009: 814–855: France, Italy: Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages. The Vikings: 1958: 860s: England
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the Middle Ages, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. John II Komnenos on a boar hunt Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Disability is poorly documented in the Middle Ages, though disabled people constituted a large part of Medieval society as part of the peasantry, clergy, and nobility.Very little was written or recorded about a general disabled community at the time, but their existence has been preserved through religious texts and some medical journals.