history of medicine

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had been treated for syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.

The COVID-19 pandemic should only present a short-term interruption to 250 years of improving life expectancy, argues historian Leigh Shaw-Taylor.

Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a “wormhole” into the worries...

On International Stammering Awareness Day (22 October), a new study reveals that Britain’s first speech therapists emerged at least a century earlier...

A collection of essays explores understandings of a vital bodily fluid in the period 1400-1700. Its contributors offer insight into both theory and...

A study of one of the most important medieval texts devoted to women’s medicine has opened a window into the many rituals associated with conception...

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, U is for...