However, Dr. Whittemore added, "I doubt if it is really effective for any of these; medieval medicine was notoriously poor."
Treatment of illnesses is necessarily more limited, confined mainly to dealing with symptoms, since medieval medicine has yet to understand disease mechanisms.
The underlying principle of medieval medicine was the theory of humours.
Herb robert was once believed to be a flower of importance to fairies and was widely used in medieval medicine.
In that regard, it was quite comparable to the medieval human medicine that Johanna had seen on Dataset.
The procedure was performed in European medieval medicine.
The underlying principle of most medieval medicine was Galen's theory of humours.
"It reminds me of medieval medicine," he said.
As a scholar of medieval medicine, she found that early medical treatises often included descriptions of food thought to be curative.
Ophthalmology was one of the foremost branches in medieval Islamic medicine.