Medicine and health

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Pod Clare Hickman WL

Gardens and the scientific revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

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Miniature depicting a couple suffering from the blisters of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that swept Europe in the Middle Ages. From the Swiss manuscript the Toggenburg Bible, 1411. Pigment on vellum. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Turning points 1348: The Black Death . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman slops here chamberpot from a window onto pedestrians in the street below in this woodcut

Were medieval cities really filthy?

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

The surprisingly modern Middle Ages

Gaol fever illustration.

Q&A What is gaol fever and how was it caused and spread?

A mother receives her newborn baby in a c1490 text written for Henry VII. Childbirth in the Middle Ages exposed both mother and child to great peril but, writes Elma Brenner, midwives had the expertise to intervene when complications arose. (Photo by Bridgeman)

The medieval childbirth guide: 6 tips for pregnant mothers in the Middle Ages

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Dr Sara Read explores women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth in early modern England. (Image by Getty Images)

Giving birth in the 17th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gulielma Lister became the world's leading expert on slime moulds (Illustration by Rachel Dickins)

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds

An allegorical depiction of the plague in ancient Rome, an angel batters down a door while people lie sick on the ground

The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?

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Pod Kyle Harper WL

Plagues of our past . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

Second World War

Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer

An image of Hippocrates from the 14th century, sitting and holding a book open in front of him

Hippocrates and humours: medicine in ancient Greece

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From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.