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![The Early History of Clove, Nutmeg, & Mace](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14702.jpg?v=1708153509)
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The Early History of Clove, Nutmeg, & Mace
The spices clove, nutmeg, and mace originated on only a handful of tiny islands in the Indonesian archipelago but came to have a dramatic, far-reaching impact on world trade. In antiquity, they became popular in the medicines of India and...
![Magic and Medicine: The casebooks of history's most notorious astrologer doctors](/uploads/kraked/6/6-2653_ci_preview.jpg)
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Magic and Medicine: The casebooks of history's most notorious astrologer doctors
A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a wormhole into the everyday worries and desires of people who lived 400 years ago.
![Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome](/uploads/kraked/6/6-1278_ci_preview.jpg)
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Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome
In this lecture presented at The Explorers Club in New York, BAS Director of Educational Programs Sarah Yeomans examines a recently excavated, as-yet unpublished archaeological site that has substantially contributed to our understanding...
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Robert Koch
Portrait of Robert Koch (1843-1910), published in 1907 in Les Prix Nobel.
![Medieval Cures for the Black Death](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/12034.jpg?v=1718219586)
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Medieval Cures for the Black Death
The Black Death is the 19th-century CE term for the plague epidemic that ravaged Europe between 1347-1352 CE, killing an estimated 30 million people there and many more worldwide as it reached pandemic proportions. The name comes from the...
![Ancient Egyptian Medical Texts](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5986.jpg?v=1718223196)
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Ancient Egyptian Medical Texts
Medicine in ancient Egypt was understood as a combination of practical technique and magical incantation and ritual. Although physical injury was usually addressed pragmatically through bandages, splints, and salves, even the broken bones...
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Trephination
Trephination (also known as trepanning or burr holing) is a surgical intervention where a hole is drilled, incised or scraped into the skull using simple surgical tools. In drilling into the skull and removing a piece of the bone, the dura...
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Oribasius
Oribasius (c. 320-400/403 CE) was the physician and political advisor of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate (r. 361-363 CE). A native of Pergamon, a rich and powerful Greek city in Mysia, he studied medicine and oratory and belonged to...
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Simon Forman
Simon Forman (1552-1611) was an Elizabethan physician, astrologer, magician, and alchemist who lived and worked in both London and Wiltshire, England. He was unusual in that despite receiving no formal training in medicine or astrology, and...
![What can we learn from Ancient Greek medicine?](/uploads/kraked/6/6-1277_ci_preview.jpg)
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What can we learn from Ancient Greek medicine?
This video briefly describes the ancient Greek pursuit of knowledge in regards to medicine, and the associated practices.