This discovery also shows that substances considered unclean today were once valued as medicinal ingredients in ancient ...

Some of these ‘remedies’ included human feces, powdered lizards and hippo teeth.

This practice reflects the Romans' resourcefulness in using available materials for medicine, despite modern views on hygiene ...

A cringeworthy new study has discovered dark-brown flakes inside a Roman glass medicinal vial, ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.

Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, ...

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New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...