But those turned out to be enough. All four samples dated to about the High Middle Ages—the oldest detection so far of leprosy in a nonhuman animal, Inskip told me. The genomes also all budded ...

Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of more ... and herbal concoctions were also commonly used to alleviate ailments from scabies and ...

This was because leprosy was a contagious and incurable ... the provision of medical care at London hospitals in the late Middle Ages. In 1524, for example, the Savoy Hospital (founded by Henry ...