The discovery of hundreds of medical tools at a single site has led scientists to believe that Allianoi might have been the site of a Roman medical center, or maybe even a medieval hospital.

The Hôtel-Dieu de Paris hospital. This is one of the few pictures of the inside of a medieval hospital There were about 1,200 places in medieval England and Wales describing themselves as ...

The Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris. This is one of the few pictures of the inside of a medieval hospital There were also leper hospitals. These were on the outskirts of towns so that lepers could ...

The most famous medieval book on herbs is probably the Read Book of Hergest (1400) which was written in Welsh around 1390. Hospitals had a slightly different meaning during the Middle Ages ...