Crushed rooster combs were applied to wounds, hoping to speed up healing. He's been all about that Effie Trinket meme lately.

A new study has revolutionized the understanding of ancient medicine by combining modern science with hands-on historical reenactments. Supported by a European Research Council (ERC) grant, the ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Most people know Caligula as one of history’s most deranged rulers: a bloodthirsty Roman emperor who supposedly made his horse a consul and murdered people for entertainment. But ...

Receiving a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Maddalena Rumor will work on a manuscript for a book currently titled ...

Primitive Roman medicine.--Early Roman medicine.--Origins of Greek physiology--Ionian and Italo-Sicilian.--Alexandrian medicine.--Settlement of Greek physicians in ...

Hailing from Southern California, Jordan Cohen received her PhD in History from the University of California, Riverside, with a dissertation that reviewed the intersection of slavery and medicine in ...