Ep.5 A Short History of Monastic Medicine
Ostrakon with Medical Recipes, 580-640CE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Pharmaceutical jar, 570-526BCE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Cuneiform tablet: list of magical stones, c. mid-late 1st millennium BCE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Mortar, 900-950E, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Mirror, 11th-12th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscoridesdated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Four Humors
Page from Fasciculo di medicine, February 5, 1493 [modern style, 1494], The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Microscope, Claude-Siméon Passemant, c.1750, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary
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Helpful Resources
Wikipedia
Medieval medicine of Western Europe [Link]
Early Middle Ages [Link]
Egyptian Medicine [Link]
Ancient Greek Medicine [Link]
Miasma Theory [Link]
Hildegard of Bingen [Link]
Books & Essays
"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Sigrid Goldiner, Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications (January 2012) [Link]
Medieval Art 2nd Ed. by Marilyn Stokstad [Link]
"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Alice Bovey (30 Apr, 2015) [Link]